Name: Michael W. Sereda, M.D., Professor of Neurology
Address:
“Molecular and Translational Neurology”, Department of Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine (MPIEM), Göttingen, Germany
- Clinic of Clinical Neurophysiology, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Germany
1999 – 2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurogenetics, MPIEM, Göttingen
2007 Group leader, „Molecular and Translational Neurology“, MPIEM
2008 Board certification in Neurology (Facharzt für Neurologie)
2011 Consultant Neurologist (Oberarzt), UMG
2012 DFG-Heisenberg Professorship “Hereditary Neuropathies”
Domain of research: Basic research interest in Schwann cell biology and axon-glia interaction in CMT. CMT rat model, experimental therapy in gene dosage disease. Translational and clinical research in CMT.
Selected Publications:
- Prukop, T., Epplen, D.B., Nientiedt, T., Wichert, S.P., Fledrich, R., Stassart, R.M., Rossner, M.J., and Edgar, J.M., Werner, H.B., Nave, K.-A*. and Sereda, M.W. (2014). Progesterone Antagonist Therapy in a Pelizaeus-Merzbacher (PMD) Mouse Model, AJHG, in press
- Stassart, R.M., Fledrich, R., Velanac, V., Brinkmann, B.G., Schwab, M.H., Meijer, D., Sereda, M.W*., and Nave, K.-A*. (2013). A role for Schwann cell-derived neuregulin-1 in remyelination. Nat Neurosci. 16, 48-54.
- Fledrich, R., Schlotter-Weigel, B., Schnizer, T.J., Wichert, S.P., Stassart, R.M., Meyer zu Hörste, G., Klink, A., Weiss, B.G., Haag, U., Walter, M.C., Rautenstrauss, B., Paulus, W., Rossner, M.J., and Sereda, M.W. (2012). A rat model of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease 1A recapitulates disease variability and supplies biomarkers of axonal loss in patients. Brain. 135, 72-87.