Inga Koerte
German neuroscientist
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Education
In 2006 Koerte received both her M.D. and her doctorate title (Dr. med.) from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. Afterwards she pursued post-doctoral fellowships at the Paediatric Neurophysiology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich as well as the Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (PNL) of the Harvard Medical School, Boston. In 2013 she achieved her habilitation in experimental radiology in Munich under Prof. M. Reiser.
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Career
Research
Koerte is well known for her research in the areas of traumatic brain injury, repetitive head impacts, neurodevelopment and cutting-edge neuroradiology. She was the first to show alterations in the brain's microstructure following repetitive subconcussive head impacts in young athletes without a history of concussion, as well as structural changes in ice hockey players over the course of a play season. together with her team, she detected signs of accelerated aging and neuroinflammation associated with exposure to repetitive brain trauma, identified risk factors, and biomarkers for neurodegeneration following brain trauma such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). In 2012 her group was the first to detect microstructural brain alterations associated with heading the ball in soccer. Dr. Koerte is head of the laboratory cBRAIN (Child Brain Research and Imaging in Neuroscience).
Current Positions
- 03/2019 - 02/2024: Leader of a Starting Grant of the European Research Council for analysing individual neurosteroid response after mild traumatic brain injuriy (NEUROPRECISE).
- 01/2017- 06/2020: Leader of a European multinational consortium (ERA-NET) of a multi-center (6 sites across Europe and 3 consultants from USA) study on traumatic brain injury in youth athletes (REPIMPACT), Leader of the German research team.
- 09/2017 - Co-Leader of an international, multi-centre initiative on large-scale analyses of neuroimaging data in sports-related concussion and paediatric TBI (ENIGMA).
- 07/2017 - Leader of a 5-year multidisciplinary, prospective cohort study on sex difference in sports-related concussion funded by the NIH, USA.