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Erwan Bezard, PhD - Executive Committee
INSERM Researcher
Universite Victor Segalen-Bordeaux 2
Bordeaux , France

Erwan Bezard is a graduate of the University Victor Segalen – Bordeaux 2 and was a visiting research fellow at the University of Manchester (UK) before being appointed an INSERM researcher in Bordeaux. Bezard has authored or co-authored over 80 professional publications in the field of neurobiology, most on Parkinson's disease and related disorders. He is perhaps best known for reappraising the identification of compensatory mechanisms masking Parkinson's progression and their sequential activation in non-human primate models mimicking PD progression. His current research interests include the study of these compensatory mechanisms, levodopa-induced dyskinesias, the basic pathophysiology of basal ganglia circuitry, and the development of new strategies to alleviate symptoms and/or slow disease progression.

Dr. Bezard has recently been appointed Visiting Professor at the China Academy of Medical Sciences (Beijing, China) where he has set up and manages a non-human primate facility dedicated to Movement Disorders. He serves on the board of international organizations such as the International Basal Ganglia Society and The Michael J. Fox Foundation. He is Associate Editor of Neurobiology of Disease and he serves on the editorial boards of several neurobiology journals. Besides consulting for several drug companies in the field of movement disorders, he is a non-executive director of Plenitudes Sarl (France), Motac Neuroscience (UK) and Motac Cognition (USA).