Holm Graessner, PhD, MBA, is managing director of the Rare Disease Centre Tübingen and head of the research management unit of the Institute of Medical Genetics and Applied Genomics at the University Hospital Tübingen. He has profound experience in project management of collaborative projects such as the FP6 and FP7 EU projects EUROSCA, MEFOPA, RATstream, SENSE-PARK, TreatPolyQ, MultISyn and NeurOmics.