Dr. Chotima Böttcher

Chotima Böttcher is a research group leader at the Experimental Neurology and the Clinical Neuroimmunology group, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the MDC, Germany.

Dr. Böttcher obtained her PhD at Institute of Pharmacy, Faculty of Natural Sciences at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/Saale, Germany. In the first year of her postdocteral fellow, she continued her study on biosynthesis of mammalian morphine at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and later at Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, MO, USA. In 2006, she moved to Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and has started her new research field –systems immunology in neuroscience, with particular emphasis on myeloid cells including monocytes and brain microglia/macrophages. Currently, her research aims to identify cellular and molecular complexity of human myeloid cells in different body compartments during neuroinflammation.