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Research center

Rostock University Medical Center

Rostock, Germany

Rostock University Medical Center

About the center

Rostock is the main ALS centre in Mecklenburg offering primary diagnostics, secondary opinion, genetic testing, patient care and individualized therapy for all stages of ALS, including also care in advanced stages including NIV/IV and nutrition. We have inpatient and outpatient clinics, caring for ~100 patients per year. Our expertise ranges from deep phenotyping of patients including cognitive and behavioral endophenotypes, (molecular) imaging and biomarker research to basic research on patient-derived cell models.
A main focus of the working group is the bidirectional translation between basic science and clinical patient work. Future direction involve work on healthy and diseased aging including modes and mechanisms of disease conversions from prodromal stages or interventions to avoid secondary aging. We are part of national (MND-NET, DZNE) and international prospective registries (Precision-ALS). We take part in diverse clinical studies including interventional and non interventional prospective clinical trials.

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hermann

Section head of the Translational neurodegeneration Section “Albrecht Kossel” at the University Medical Center Rostock

Rostock University Medical Center

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hermann

Section head of the Translational neurodegeneration Section “Albrecht Kossel” at the University Medical Center Rostock

Andreas Hermann is general neurologist with special expertise in neuromuscular disease and has been working on 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. Prof. Hermann is also part of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and heading the mutli-centre prospective ALS registry of the DZNE.

Prof. Hermann studied 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, since then serving as PI of the MND center Dresden and since 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.