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Erwan Bezard, PhD, PhD

INSERM Researcher Director
University Victor Segalen

Bordeaux,  France

Dr. Bezard has authored or co-authored over 100 professional publications in the field of neurobiology, most of which are on Parkinson's disease and related disorders. He is perhaps best known for the reappraisal of both the identification of the nature of compensatory mechanisms that mask the progression Parkinson's disease and their sequential activation in non-human primate models that mimic Parkinson’s progression. His current research interests include the study of the compensatory mechanisms, the levodopa-induced dyskinesia, the basic pathophysiology of basal ganglia circuitry, and the development of new strategies to alleviate symptoms and/or to slow disease progression.

Besides his INSERM position at CNRS UMR 5227 in Bordeaux, he is also a 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).