Prof. Wassilios Meissner

Prof. Meissner is Head of the Department of Neurology for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University Hospital Bordeaux, Chair of the French Reference Center for Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), and Deputy Director of the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases (CNRS UMR 5293) at the University of Bordeaux.

He received his medical degree in 1997 from Humboldt University Berlin in Germany and his Board Certification in Neurology in 2005 after completing his residency at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin and the University Hospital Bordeaux. In 2005, he was awarded a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Bordeaux. He was appointed Professor of Neurology at the University of Bordeaux in 2012.

Prof. Meissner has served on several MDS Committees since 2013, including a leadership role as Chair of the International Education Committee between 2017-2019, and is the current MDS Treasurer. He has authored more than 250 publications in movement disorders, mainly dealing with MSA and Parkinson’s disease (PD).

His recent research focuses on biological and clinical markers of disease progression in MSA and PD, and the development of new treatments for these disorders in a translational approach.