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Professor of Molecular Biology Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences Biomedical Research Institute Hasselt University, Belgium Website:www.uhasselt.be/biomed-en Veerle Somers is a Full Professor of Molecular Biology at Hasselt University and Vice Dean of the Transnationale Universiteit Limburg, School of Life Sciences. She is head of disease markers & bionanotechnology program at the Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED) and biobank coordinator at the Clinical Research Center (CRC) of Hasselt University. Somers’ main research interests focus on B cell analysis and biomarker discovery in autoimmune and neurologic diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Spinal cord injury, Rheumatoid arthritis and Axial spondyloarthritis. Veerle Somers has [...]

Head of the Multiple Sclerosis Center - Department of Neurology Faculty Hospital, Masaryk University Brno Dr. Stourac is the Head of the Multiple Sclerosis Centre at the Department of Neurology, Faculty Hospital, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic. He graduated in 1984 and received Ph.D in neuroimmunology in 2001. He passed postgraduate training in neuroimmunology in neuroimmunological laboratories in Barcelona, Spain (prof.Graus) and Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA and in other neuroimmunological centers. Dr. Stourac participated in EU PNS Euronetwork programmes in the period 2002-2008. He is a member of the Czech Neuroimmunological Society and member of [...]

Professor Neurology University of Genoa Work Experience Institution: University of Genoa 2018 –: Scientific Director Ospedale Policlinico San Martino - Sistema Sanitario Regione Liguria - Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico per l’Oncologia 2018 –: Direttore Unità Operativa Semplice “Neurologic Outpatient Clinic (neurologia ambulatoriale)” nell’ambito dell’UOC Clinica Neurologica dell’IRCCS Policlinico San Martino 2017 – today: Full Professor – Neurology University of Genoa 2011 – 2017: Associate Professor – Neurology 1993 – 2011: Dirigente Medico di I livello (Assistant Professor Level), Department of Neurosciences, Ophthalmology and Genetics-University of Genoa 1995 – : Head of the Neuroimmunology Lab of Department [...]

Christian Vedeler is senior consultant and professor at the Department of Neurology, Haukeland University Hospital and Department for Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Norway. He is the head of the neuroimmunology section at the Neurology department, group leader for the Research group on Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndromes (PNS) at the University (https://www.uib.no/en/rg/pns) and board member of the newly-found Neuro-SysMed Center of Excellence for Research in Brain Diseases in Norway. <— Antonio Uccelli      Angela Vincent —>

Emeritus Research Fellow at Somerville College Emeritus Professor of Neuroimmunology at the University of Oxford Angela Vincent (born 1942) is an Emeritus Professor of Neuroimmunology at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Research Fellow of Somerville College. She qualified as a doctor in London but after one year of internship she embarked on an MSc in Biochemistry at University College and did not pursue further clinical training. She was an Honorary Consultant in Immunology and established the Oxford Neuroimmunology Service for detection of autoantibodies in neurological diseases. Her clinical interests are in the role of auto-antibodies to ion channels and [...]

Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield Nazionality British EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS 1972 – 1975Chelsea College, University of London, BSc Biochemistry – First Class Honours 1975 – 1978Chelsea College, University of London, PhD Biochemistry 1994 – 1995Sheffield Hallam University Postgraduate Certificate in Further and Higher Education POSTDOCTORAL EXPERIENCE 1983 – 1990Research Assistant, Multiple Sclerosis Society Laboratory, Institute of Neurology 1981 – 1983Research Assistant, Muscular Dystrophy Lab., Institute of Neurology 1980 – 1981Research Assistant, Biochemistry Dept., Imperial College, London 1978 – 1980Postdoctoral Fellow of the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America, Anatomy Dept., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA EMPLYMENT 2004 – presentHead of Biomedical [...]