Invited Speakers

Professor and Co-Chair of the Inst. of Experimental Immunology, University of Zurich.

Professor Burkhard Becher studied Biology at the University of Cologne in Germany and specialized in Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry - Read more...

Professor of Neuropathology and Director of the Department of Neuropathology at the University Medical Centre Göttingen

Professor Dr Wolfgang Brück has been head of the Department of Neuropathology at the University Medical Centre Göttingen since 2002. He went to Medical School at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz from 1980 – 1986. - Read more...

Professor of Neurology in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's disease and the Aging Brain and the Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative, Columbia University.

Dr Philip De Jager is the Weil-Granat Professor of Neurology at Columbia University Medical Center, where he is the Chief of the Division of Neuroimmunology. - Read more...

Emeritus Professor of Neuropathology, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford. Read more...

Professor and director of the Department of Neuroimmunology / Institute for Multiple Sclerosis Research, University of Göttingen

Dr Alexander Flügel focuses his interest on the mechanisms and factors that allow the cells to enter the brain. -  Read more...

Professor of Neuroimmunology and Director of the Institute of Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis (INIMS), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany.

Professor Dr Manuel Friese studied medicine at the Universities of Hamburg, Oxford and University College London and received his MD in 2001, - Read more...

Medical Director of the Department for Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine at the University Medical Centre in Göttingen 

Dr Jutta Gärtner studied medicine at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium as well as at the University of Hamburg, Germany. - Read more...

Director Neurological Clinic, St. Josef Hospital Faculty of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum. -
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Professor of the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Dr Stephen L. Hauser, is the Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco. He is Director of the Weill Institute for Neurosciences, - Read more...

Assistant Professor for Research, University of Virginia Department of Neuroscience.

Jasmin Herz is an Associate Faculty Member who works with Jonathan Kipnis to evaluate the literature relevant to their research interests. - Read more...

Chair for Neurosciences and Clinical Neuroimmunology and Director of the Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich.  

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Professor of Neuroimmunology and Deputy Director, Department of Neurology, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University Munich.  

After graduating from Medical School at the Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg and the Royal London School of Medicine, Thomas Korn started a residency program in Neurology...  Read more...

Associate Professor/Senior Consultant in Neuropathology, Geneva University Hospital.

Professor in Neurology at Karolinska Institutet, Solna.

Prof. Tomas Olsson received his MD in 1977 and completed his PhD in Medical Sciences in 1980. He obtained Specialist exam in Clinical Neurology in 1984. He was appointed as Professor of Molecular Medicine 1995, - Read more...

Consultant Neurologist and Associate Professor of Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford University

Dr Jackie Palace is a consultant neurologist in Oxford and Associate Professor of Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford University.  She leads the Oxford Multiple Sclerosis group and runs a national service for congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMS) - Read more...

Professor of Neuropathology and Chair of the Institute of Neuropathology at the University of Freiburg, Germany.  

Marco Prinz is Professor of Neuropathology and Chair of the Institute of Neuropathology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Dr. Prinz obtained his MD at the Charitè, Humboldt-University Berlin in 1997. - Read more...

Professor of Neurology at the Center for Neurologic Diseases, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and an Associate Member at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.

Dr Francisco Quintana, a graduate of the University of Buenos Aires (1999, Argentina), obtained his PhD in immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science (2004, Israel). - Read more...

Professor of Cellular Neurobiology at Imperial College London and head of an MS research group at the Hammersmith Hospital campus.

Anna-Lena joined Prof Fugger’s lab as a postdoctoral researcher. She is particularly interested in the relationship between inflammatory and neurodegenerative pathways in MS, with an emphasis also on the potential translational implications of her research. -  Read more...