Experimental Animal Models of Multiple System Atrophy - Wouter Peelaerts, PhD 

2nd Annual All-Community Virtual MSA Conference 2021 - English
Speaker: Wouter Peelaerts, PhD (Belgium; Defeat MSA Alliance; MSA United Consortium)
Dr. Peelaerts is an experienced neuroscientist with special expertise in degenerative brain diseases. He earned his Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from KU Leuven and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship there focused on neurobiology and gene therapy under the mentorship of Prof. Veerle Baekelandt. His efforts helped uncover new insights that further link the abnormal protein alpha-synuclein to neurodegenerative diseases, in particular Parkinson’s and multiple system atrophy. In 2017, he joined the lab of Dr. Patrik Brundin at Van Andel Institute, MI, USA where he focused on drug repurposing of anti-diabetic drugs and studied how peripheral infections can trigger Parkinson’s and multiple system atrophy. Currently, he is senior post-doctoral fellow of the FWO Flanders and focuses on multiple system atrophy and the development of novel gene therapy strategies. He has received numerous accolades for his research, including the 2020 JiePie award for MSA research, a prestigious 2017-2019 Fulbright Fellowship, the ATCG and ID&T postdoctoral award and a Beatrix Movement Disorders award. Dr. Peelaerts serves on the research advisory committees for both Defeat MSA Alliance (US) and MSA United International Consortium.
- This lecture was given at the Defeat MSA Alliance
& MSA United All-Community MSA Conference (Sept 24-Oct 2, 2021)
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