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 leadership roles as Chair of the International Education Committee (2017-2019), MDS Treasurer
(2023-2025) and MDS Officer (2021-2025). He has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed publications in
movement disorders, mainly dealing with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and MSA. His recent research focuses on
biological and clinical markers of disease progression in PD and MSA, and the development of new treatments
for these disorders in a translational approach.