Prof. Andreas Hermann

Prof. Andreas Hermann is general neurologist with special expertise in neuromuscular disease and has been working with ALS for more than 15 years. He is Section head of the Translational Neurodegeneration Section “Albrecht Kossel” at the University Medical Center Rostock which focuses on the bidirectional translation between basic science and deep clinical phenotyping including Brain Banking. He is also part of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and heading the mutli-centre prospective ALS registry of the DZNE.

Prof. Hermann studies Medicine at Ulm University and the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. He did his residency training at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. He became Senior Neurologist in 2013, serving as PI of the MND center in Dresden and from 2019 in Rostock, Germany. He served as head of the Division for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Deputy Director of the Center for Healthy Aging in Dresden until 2018 and is now W3 Professor and Section Head of the Translational Neurodegeneration Section “Albrecht Kossel” at the University Medical Center Rostock. He took part in several interventional and non-interventional clinical studies ranging from phase 1-3.