SESSION 1:
EPIDEMIOLOGY, PHYSIOPATHOLOGY, MS CRITERIA

The inflammatory process in Multiple Sclerosis / pathophysiology of Multiple Sclerosis

SPEAKER

Hans Lassmann (Austria)

Hans Lassmann is retired Professor for Neuroimmunology and currently works as a research associate at the Center for Brain Research at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria.

He studied medicine at the University of Vienna and was then trained in neuropathology at the Institute of Neurology. This scientific education was complemented by a post-doctoral training in experimental neuropathology and neuroimmunology at the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities.

In 1999 he was appointed as full professor for Neuroimmunology at the Medical University of Vienna and as the founding director of the Center for Brain Research. He retired from this position in 2017 and is currently engaged as a research associate. His major research interests are in neuroimmunology and immunopathology of the central nervous system with special focus on the pathogenesis of inflammatory brain diseases, including multiple sclerosis.

He has received numerous research awards, including the Charcot award, the research prize of the Sobek foundation and the Translational Medicine Prize of the Gertrud Reemtsma-Stiftung and the WFN Medal for Achievements in Neurology. He is honorary member of the Japanese and the French Neurological Societies and Member of the Austrian and the German (Leopoldina) Academies of Sciences.