Maggie Walter

Associate Professor of Neurology

Germany

Maggie Walter is Associate Professor of Neurology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. She has trained as a neurologist at the LMU Munich, and is working at the Friedrich-Baur-Institute, the neuromuscular department of the LMU, in leading position. Furthermore, she graduated with a master degree in management of social and health institutions.

Her main research interests are neuromuscular diseases, mainly muscular dystrophies, myofibrillar myopathies, inflammatory myopathies, spinal muscular atrophy, CMT neuropathies, and clinical trials in neuromuscular patients. She is coordinator of the German Muscular Dystrophy Network (MD-NET), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) since 2003, co-coordinator of the German Charcot-Marie-Tooth Network (CMT-NET), BMBF funded since 2016, and member of TREAT-NMD, an European Network of Excellence in the 6th EU frame program for translational research in neuromuscular diseases. Since 1997, she is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Germany (DGM), and ad hoc reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals. She is responsible for the German patient registries, the DMD, SMA, CMT, IBM and PAM/MFM registry (www.treat-nmd.eu), and together with Volker Straub for the international FKRP registry.