He would go on to complete his postdoc at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg Germany under Dr. Carlos Dotti.
Along with continued advancement in neurodegenerative diseases, De Strooper became the center's Departmental Director in 2007, leading over 250 neuroscience researchers.
[4] De Strooper voluntarily stepped down from the role in November 2022, citing a desire to focus on dementia and translational neuroscience at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.
[5] The following year he was the recipient of the 2003 Alois Alzheimer Award of the Deutscher Gesellschaft für Gerontopsychiatrie und psychotherapie and the 2005 Joseph Maisin Prize for fundamental biomedical sciences.He received the 2008 Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease along with Robert Vassar and Philip C. Wong[6] He shared the 2018 Brain Prize with John Hardy, Christian Haass and Michel Goedert.
[7] The same year Expertscape, a research ranking publisher, recognized Dr. Strooper as one of the top experts in the world in Alzheimer's disease.