Dr. Jörg Christoph Prinz

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Jörg C. Prinz is Full Professor of Dermatology and Venereology at the Clinic for Dermatology and Allergology of the Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, Germany. He graduated with a medical degree from the University of Innsbruck in 1983. After one year training in internal medicine at the University clinics of Freiburg he performed five years of basic immunology research as postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Immunology of the LMU in Munich, focusing on the generation of monoclonal antibodies against cell surface molecules and the regulatory role of low-affinity IgE receptors in IgE production. He joined the Clinic for Dermatology and Allergology in 1990, where he founded the Research Group for Immunopathology. Jörg Prinz earned specialist qualifications in dermatology and venerology in 1995 and in allergology in 1996 and was appointed as Full Professor of Dermatology in 2001. His current responsibilities include being deputy chair of the Department and supervising the phototherapy unit and psoriasis center, and the serological analysis laboratory. At medical school he received several teaching awards.