Alexander Storch

Prof. Dr. Alexander Storch serves as a Group Leader at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) in Rostock, Germany, focusing on non-motor symptoms in movement disorders including Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with particular emphasis on cognitive dysfunctions.

His research group integrates learning and memory assessments with functional and morphological neuroimaging to characterize cognitive impairments in neurodegenerative conditions. Concurrently, they pioneer regenerative therapies for Parkinson's disease through stem cell-based approaches, examining fetal tissue-specific neural stem cells, adult neural stem cells, and bone marrow-derived stem cells for proliferation, differentiation into dopaminergic neurons, and mechanisms governing predopaminergic progenitor specification. Their work explores adult neurogenesis in healthy and diseased states to identify endogenous regeneration targets, alongside in vivo studies optimizing biopolymer-assisted stem cell transplantation for nigrostriatal pathway reinnervation.

The Storch group operates within DZNE's research framework, conducting translational studies that bridge fundamental stem cell biology with therapeutic applications for neurodegenerative disorders.