Lennart Mucke is the director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, and a senior investigator at Gladstone. He is also the Joseph B. Martin Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and a professor of neurology at UC San Francisco (UCSF). He has joint appointments in UCSF’s Neuroscience, Biomedical Sciences, and Medical Scientist (MD/PhD) Graduate Training Programs.

Mucke is a graduate of the Georg-August University and the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Neurobiology) in Göttingen, Germany. He trained in internal medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, in neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and in neuroimmunology and neurovirology at The Scripps Research Institute, where he was subsequently appointed to the faculty. Mucke was recruited to Gladstone Institutes in 1996.