Georg Bernhard Landwehrmeyer FRCP is a German neurologist and neuroscientist in the field of neurodegeneration primarily focusing on Huntington's disease.
He went to Venezuela with Anne and Nancy Wexler several times, and was alerted to stimulating HD field studies aside from work at the bench.
[9] In 2000 he was appointed full Professor of Neurology, 'Clinical Neurobiology,' at the University of Ulm and was given the opportunity to organize (together with Albert Ludolph, the chairperson of the Department of Neurology at the University of Ulm, who initiated the work) the first large (>500 participants), long-term (3-year randomized clinical trial, followed by a blinded extension) multicenter European phase III HD trial.
This collaboration led to forming the European HD Network (EHDN) in 2003–2004, funded by CHDI Foundation, a philanthropic US-American organization.
[30] Bernhard Landwehrmeyer was involved in almost all RCTs in HD conducted in Europe since 1999, often serving as coordinating PI or national lead investigator.
This multi-disciplinary center provides genetic counselling, clinical in- and out-patient services as well as rehabilitation for HD affected families along with basic and translational science.