Andreas H. Kottmann

Associate Medical Professor, CUNY School of Medicine

Department of Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences

Dr. Kottmann is an Associate Medical Professor at the CUNY School of Medicine in the department of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience.

He studied molecular immunology under George Koehler at the Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg, Germany, where he received his PhD in 1991. He received post doctoral training in developmental neurobiology at the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior of Columbia University under the mentorship of Thomas M Jessell. From 1999 to 2003 he was the Vice President of Research of the biotech company PsychoGenics, Inc. in New York.

Dr. Kottmann’s laboratory employs a variety of molecular, pharmacological, and genetic loss and gain of function strategies in mice to study mechanisms of regulation of structural plasticity in the adult central nervous system (CNS). In particular, he is interested in how physiological cell stress responses in neurons cause orchestrated structural adaptations to insults to the CNS.