Members

Asia
Department of Neurology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences – Kyushu University, Japan
PI(s): Professor and chairperson Noriko Isobe, MD, PhD
Members: Lecturer Takuya Matsushita, MD, PhD; Instructor Katsuhisa Masaki, MD, PhD; Assistent professor Mitsuru Watanabe, MD, PhD; Collaborative researcher Fumie Hayashi, MD, PhD; Graduate school student Eizo Tanaka, MD; Graduate school student Shoko Fukumoto, MD; Professor emeritus Jun-ichi Kira, MD, PhD

Europe
Neurology Biomarker Research Unit – Department of Neurology, Medical University of Graz, Austria
PI(s): Assoc. Prof. Michael Khalil, MD, PhD
Laboratory for Neuroimmunology – Department of Neurosciences, KU Leuven, Belgium
PI(s): Prof. An Goris and Prof. Bénédicte Dubois
Members: Stijn Swinnen, MD; Margaux David, MSc; Jarne Beliën, MSc; Dries De Wit, MD; Nina Dedonkcer, BSc

Research in Neuroimmunology and Genetics, Danish Multiple Sclerosis Center (DMSC), Department of Neurology, Rigshospitalet – Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark
PI(s): Assoc. Prof. Annette Oturai, Helle Bach Søndergaard (laboratory head), Prof. emeritus Per Soelberg Sørensen, Prof. Finn Sellebjerg
Members: Malene Bredahl Hansen (Post Doc), Anna Gabriella Olsson (PhD), Stefan Gustavsen (PhD)

Translational Immunogenomics of Transplantation and Autoimmunity – Université de Nantes, France
PI(s): Prof. Pierre-Antoine Gourraud and Dr. Nicolas Vince

Department of Neurology, Neuroimmunology Research Groups – University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
PI(s): Dr. Frauke Zipp (Strategy Group, Governance Group), Dr. Stefan Bittner, Dr. Christina M. Lill, Dr. Vinzenz Fleisher, Dr. Felix Lüssi

Department of Neurology, Klinikum rechts der Isar – Technical University of Munich, Germany
PI(s): Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hemmer
Members: Dr. Till Andlauer, Dr. Christiane Gasperi, Prof. Dr. Mark Mühlau

MS center ErasMS – Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
PI(s): Dr. Joost Smolders (head MS center), Dr. Marvin van Luijn

Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo & Department of Neurology – Oslo University Hospital, Norway
PI(s): Prof Hanne F. Harbo, Prof Elisabeth Gulowsen Celius, Prof Tone Berge and Steffan Daniel Bos

Laboratory for Epigenetics – Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
PI(s): Assoc. Prof. Maja Jagodic

Section of Neuroimmunology and MS Research (nims), Department of Neurology – University Hospital Zürich / University of Zürich, Switzerland
PIs: Prof. Roland Martin (Head of section), Dr. Mireia Sospedra (laboratory head), Dr. Ilijas Jelcic (specialized on autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation) and Prof. Andreas Lutterotti (Head of Experimental Therapies Research)

Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Neurology Unit – Cambridge University, UK
PI(s): Prof. Stephen Sawcer
Post Doc: Dr. Maria Ban
Technician: Amie Baker
Neuroscience and Neurology Group, School of Pharmacy and Bioegineering – Keele University, UK
PIs: Dr. Seema Kalra

North America
Cotsapas Laboratory – Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
PI(s): Chris Cotsapas, PhD
Members: Matthew Lincoln, MD DPhil FRCPC; Klementy Shchetynsky, PhD; Iryna Kolosenko, PhD; Oksana Goroshchuk, MD PhD; Kevin Hu, BA; Andrea Tamminga, BSc; Ernie Chen, BSc
Center for Translational & Computational Neuroimmunology – Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
PI(s): Philip De Jager, MD PhD
Independent Investigator: Gao Wang, PhD; Claire Riley, MD; Vilas Menon, PhD
Members: Masashi Fujita, PhD; Tina Roostaei, MD

Oceania
Immunogenetics Group, Centre for Immunology and Allergy Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research – The University of Sydney, Australia
PI(s): Dr. Grant Parnell

MS Research Flagship, Menzies Institute for Medical Research – University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia
PI(s): Bruce Taylor, MD, PhD and Yuan Zhou, PhD

Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science – The University of Western Australia, Western Australia, Australia
PI(s): Prof. Allan G Kermode MD, PhD and Dr. Marzena J Fabis-Pedrini, PhD