Hartmut Wekerle

Hartmut Wekerle (born May 30, 1944) is a German medical scientist and neurobiologist. He is director at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology and head of the department Neuroimmunology.

Hartmut Wekerle studied medicine at the University of Freiburg where he also gained his PhD. As a post-doctoral researcher, he worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) and the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg. Afterwards, he led the Research Group for Multiple Sclerosis at the Institute of Clinical Neurobiology at the University Hospital of the University of Würzburg. In 1988, he was appointed director at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology.