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Multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology

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Heinz Wiendl

Heinz Wiendl is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist who has chaired Neurology at University Hospital Freiburg since 2024, after leading the department at Münster from 2013.

Henry F. McFarland

Henry F. McFarland (1940–2024) was an American neuroimmunologist who spent his career at NINDS, co-founded its Neuroimmunology Branch in 1975, and pioneered MRI for diagnosing and monitoring multiple sclerosis.

Howard L. Weiner

Howard L. Weiner is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist, Robert L. Kroc Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, known for developing oral tolerance immunotherapy for multiple sclerosis.

Jack P. Antel

Jack P. Antel is a Canadian neurologist and neuroimmunologist at McGill University and the Montreal Neurological Institute, known for multiple sclerosis research and the 2005 Dystel Award.

Jacques De Keyser

Jacques De Keyser is a Belgian neurologist and neuroscientist, professor emeritus at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, known for research on stroke, multiple sclerosis, and astrocytes.

James Walker Dawson

James Walker Dawson (1870–1927) was a Scottish pathologist at the Royal College of Physicians' Laboratory in Edinburgh whose landmark 1916 monograph on multiple sclerosis gave medicine the Dawson's fingers MRI sign.

Jeffrey A. Cohen

Jeffrey A. Cohen is an American neurologist specializing in multiple sclerosis at the Cleveland Clinic's Mellen Center, known for leading the 2010 TRANSFORMS trial of oral fingolimod.

Jerry S. Wolinsky

Jerry S. Wolinsky is an American neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher at UTHealth Houston who helped revise the McDonald diagnostic criteria and led the ORATORIO ocrelizumab trial.

John N. Whitaker

John N. Whitaker was an American neurologist and immunologist who chaired neurology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham from 1985 until his death in 2001.

Lars Fugger

Lars Fugger, born in 1960, is a Danish physician-scientist and Professor of Neuroimmunology at Oxford, known for a humanized transgenic mouse model of multiple sclerosis.

Lawrence Steinman

Lawrence Steinman is a neurologist at Stanford University whose multiple sclerosis research produced the approved therapy natalizumab, and who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Leslie P. Weiner

Leslie P. Weiner, also cited as L. P. Weiner, is a retired American neurologist and virologist who identified the JC papovavirus as the cause of PML.

Ludwig Kappos

Ludwig Kappos is a Swiss neurologist and emeritus professor at the University of Basel who led pivotal trials of most approved multiple sclerosis therapies and helped set diagnostic criteria.

Manuel A. Friese

Manuel A. Friese is a German neurologist and physician-scientist who studies how inflammation kills neurons in multiple sclerosis, directing the INIMS institute in Hamburg and winning the 2025 Barancik Prize.

Marco Prinz

Marco Prinz is a German physician-scientist who has directed the Institute of Neuropathology at the University of Freiburg since 2008 and is known for research on microglia.

Maria A. Rocca

Maria A. Rocca, also known as Maria Rocca, is an Italian neurologist and associate professor at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University who uses MRI to study multiple sclerosis.

Massimo Filippi

Massimo Filippi is an Italian neurologist and Full Professor at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, known for applying MRI to the study of multiple sclerosis.

Milton Alter

Milton Alter, known in Hebrew as Meir Alter (1929–2016), was an American neurologist and neuroepidemiologist who chaired Neurology at Temple University and was a founder of neuroepidemiology.

Moses Rodriguez

Moses Rodriguez is an American neurologist and immunologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for multiple sclerosis research and for identifying rHIgM22, an antibody developed to promote myelin repair.

Nagagopal Venna

Nagagopal Venna is a neurologist and neuroimmunologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, known for early work on HIV neurological complications and rare autoimmune disorders.

Neil Scolding

Neil J. Scolding is a British clinical neuroscientist and neurologist known for multiple sclerosis research and adult stem-cell therapy, and the first Burden Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Bristol, from 1999.

Oded Abramsky

Oded Abramsky is an Israeli neurologist and neuroimmunologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for establishing neuroimmunology as a discipline and pioneering stem cell therapy trials in multiple sclerosis and ALS.

Paul M. Matthews

Paul M. Matthews is a neurologist who founded Oxford's FMRIB brain imaging center, worked in imaging research at GlaxoSmithKline, and studies neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis.

Paul O’Connor

Paul W. O'Connor is a Canadian neurologist and clinical epidemiologist who led pivotal multiple sclerosis trials, including the 2003 natalizumab and 2011 TEMSO teriflunomide trials.

Per Soelberg Sørensen

Per Soelberg Sørensen is a Danish neurologist and multiple sclerosis researcher who founded the Danish Multiple Sclerosis Center at Rigshospitalet and won the 2017 Charcot award.

Peter A. Calabresi

Peter A. Calabresi is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist known for research on how immune cells damage the brain in multiple sclerosis and for retinal imaging to track the disease.

Peter W. Lampert

Peter W. Lampert (1929–1986) was a German-born American neuropathologist who chaired pathology at UCSD from 1979 until his death, using electron microscopy to study demyelination and viral disease.

Ralf Gold

Ralf Gold, born 1960, is a German neurologist and neuroimmunology researcher who has held the neurology chair at Ruhr University Bochum since 2006, known for multiple sclerosis therapy research including fumarates.

Raymond A. Sobel

Raymond A. Sobel, also published as Raymond Sobel, is a neuropathologist and Stanford professor whose research on multiple sclerosis includes widely used mouse EAE models.

Reinhard Hohlfeld

Reinhard Hohlfeld is a German neurologist and neuroimmunologist, professor at Munich University Hospital, known for research on the immunological mechanisms and treatment of multiple sclerosis.