Meuth, Sven
Prof. Dr. Dr. Sven Meuth is currently Director of the Department of Neurology at Düsseldorf University Hospital, with a planned move to Münster University Hospital in the near future. He was elected as a new member of the Board in 2025 as Deputy Spokesperson and is therefore also a representative of the association and legal deputy.
Professional stations
2029 – 2031: DGN President (past), German Society of Neurology
2027 – 2029: DGN President, German Society of Neurology
2025 – 2027: DGN President (incoming), German Society of Neurology
Since 2024: Medical Director of Speech Therapy (consultative care), University Hospital Düsseldorf
Since 2024: Spokesman of the Board of the Coordination Center for Clinical Studies (KKS), University Hospital Düsseldorf
2024: DGN Congress President, German Society for Neurology
Since 2020: Director, Department of Neurology, Düsseldorf University Hospital
2018 – 2019: Dean, Faculty of Medicine Münster
Since 2019: Honorary doctorate, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran
2017 – 2019: Vice Dean for Research / Deputy Dean, Faculty of Medicine Münster
2016 – 2020: Director (W3 with management function), Institute for Translational Neurology, University Hospital Münster
2013 – 2020: Deputy Director, Clinic for General Neurology, University Hospital Münster, Director: Prof. Dr. H. Wiendl
2011: Recognition as a specialist in neurology, Westphalia-Lippe Medical Association
2010 – 2016: Professor (W3) for Neuropathophysiology, Institute of Physiology I, University of Münster, Director: Prof. H.C. Pape
2011 – 2013: Senior Consultant, Department of Neurology – Division of Inflammatory Diseases of the Nervous System and Neurooncology, University Hospital Münster Director: Prof. Dr. H. Wiendl
2004 – 2010: Assistant physician, research assistant, visiting scientist Neurological Clinic and Polyclinic, University Hospital Würzburg Director: Prof. Dr. K.V. Toyka, Hospital for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Lohr am Main, Director: Prof. Dr. G. Jungkunz
2004 – 2005: Stay abroad, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Education
2009 – 2011: Distance learning program for “Master of Health Business Administration”, Friedrich-Alexander University, Nuremberg-Erlangen
2007: “Dr. rer. nat.”, Institute of Physiology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg,
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. H.C. Pape, title “Expression and functional relevance of two-pore K+ channels of the TASK family in thalamic switch neurons” (summa cum laude)
2005: “Dr. med.”, Institute of Physiology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg; Supervisor: Prof. Dr. T. Budde, Director: Prof. Dr. H.C. Pape, Title: “Calcium-dependent inactivation of neuronal calcium channels in rat thalamocortical switch neurons” (summa cum laude)
2000 – 2011: Scientific work accompanying studies, Institute of Physiology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg; student assistant, Prof. H.C. Pape
2000 – 2004: Postgraduate course “Neurobiology”, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg
1999 – 2002: funded member of the DFG Research Training Group Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg; “Biological basis of diseases of the nervous system”
1997 – 2004: Study of human medicine, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg
Main research areas
- Multiple sclerosis
- Neuroimmunology
Membership
- Absence representative of the Head of the Department of Conservative Medicine, Düsseldorf University Hospital
- Advisory board for the neurological board “Der Nervenarzt”
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Anton Betz Foundation of Rheinische Post e.V.
- Section Spokesperson for Clinical Neurosciences, NeuroWissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e.V. (NWG)
- Member of the Board of Trustees of the Walter Clawiter Endowment Fund
- Member of the German Brain Foundation
- Member of the Steering Committee of the Clinician Scientist Program FUTURE-4-CSPMM,
Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf - Member of the Faculty Council of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Director of the Coordination Center for Clinical Studies (KKS), Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Member of the GENERATE e.V. association, scientific board of trustees
- Member of “Förderverein Epilepsieforschung an der Universität Münster e.V.”
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Master’s program “MS Management “
- Member of the “Lumbar puncture and cerebrospinal fluid diagnostics” guidelines committee
Awards
Apheresis Innovation Award – Immunapheresis (2024)
Professor of the Year, UNICUM Foundation (2024)
Nursing Prize of the DGN 2024, German Society for Neurology (2024)
Prize of the German Society of Nephrology (DGfN) (2024)
Heinrich Pette Prize of the German Society of Neurology (2014)
PRO-SCIENTIA Award of the Eckhart-Buddecke Foundation (2013)
Maria Möller Foundation Sponsorship Award, Oncology (2012)
Oppenheim Young Talent Award for Multiple Sclerosis Research (2010)
Maria Möller Foundation Sponsorship Award, Oncology (2012)
Oppenheim Young Talent Award for Multiple Sclerosis Research (2010)
SOBEK Young Talent Award of the German Multiple Sclerosis Society, Federal Association (2010)
Helmut Bauer Young Talent Award for Multiple Sclerosis Research, Göttingen (2009)
ARSE – Association pour la récherche sur la sclérose en plaque, Paris, France (2009)
Best presentation ECTRIMS – European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis, Montreal, Canada (2008)
Young Scientist Award, Klaus-Felgenhauer Foundation (2005)
Dissertationspreis Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, Karin-Witte-Stiftung; Auszeichnung für die beste Promotion aller Fakultäten (2005)
Year of birth
1977