He is serving as senior medical director at F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. in Basel, Switzerland. He received medical and scientific training at the Diabetes Research Institute, Germany; the University of Leicester, UK; Harvard Medical School; and Hannover Medical School, Germany, where he is now an associate professor. He also specializes in pharmaceutical medicine and has experience in preclinical and clinical drug development in cardiovascular and metabolic disease areas. Meier is a fellow of the American Society of Nephrology and a reviewer for journals in diabetes mellitus and kidney-associated diseases such as renal anemia.