Holm Graessner is Executive Director of the Rare Disease Centre, since 2010, at the University and University Hospital Tübingen, Germany.
He is Coordinator of the European Reference Network for Rare Neurological Diseases (ERN-RND).
Together with Olaf Riess, he coordinates the H2020 Solve-RD project on “Solving the unsolved rare diseases”.
He received his PhD “Summa cum laude” in 2004 and, then, he obtained his MBA degree in 2008.
From 2003 until now, he has been coordinating and managing more than 10 EU funded collaborative projects. The main focus of these projects are rare and neurological diseases, among them EUROSCA, MEFOPA, SENSE-PARK, MULTISYN, NEUROMICS and PROOF.
He has been co-leading one of the four working groups of the German Action Plan for Rare Diseases.
Since 2017, in his function as the coordinator of ERN-RND, he is a member of the Rare Disease Task Force of the European Academy of Neurology. In the Coordinator’s Group of the European Reference Networks, he leads the cross-border healthcare working group.