Sergiu Groppa, MD, PhD

Area of Focus

  • Advanced Parkinson’s therapies
  • alpha-synuclein
  • Atypical Parkinson's

Biography

Sergiu Groppa is Professor of Neurology and Director of the Neurology Clinic at the University Medical Center Homburg. After studying Medicine at the Universities of Bonn, Innsbruck and Kiel, he was trained as neurologist and clinical neuroscientist at the Universities of Kiel and at King’s College London. Afterwards he worked more then 10 years as a Professor of Neurology and Department Head at the University Hospital Mainz. His scientific work focuses on physiolgical basis of motor and cognitive function and on mechanisms of adaptation with neurological disorders, neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation. He develops paradigms for optimised neuromodulation and works on translational models of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration.