Thomas Korn MD

Professor Thomas Korn (b. 1972) is interested in the molecular characterization of fate decisions of T cells in non-lymphoid tissues in particular in the central nervous system in the context of autoimmunity. A specific focus of his research is the formation of CD4+ T helper cell responses. 

After graduating from Medical School at the Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg and the Royal London School of Medicine, Professor Korn started a residency program in Neurology and worked in the Neuroimmunology Research groups of Klaus Toyka, Würzburg and later with Stefan Jung, Homburg/Saar. He became board board-approved Fellow in Neurology in 2005 and then began postdoctoral training with Vijay Kuchroo at Harvard Medical School. Back in Germany, Professor Korn became a senior physician at the Department of Neurology of the Technical University of Munich and started his research group with a Heisenberg Award from the German Research Council. Since 2013, Professor Korn has held a full professorship for Neuroimmunology and has been deputy director of the Department of Neurology of the Klinikum Rechts der Isar.