fellowship

In the past year, the EFNS TEC has continued working with the same leader- and membership. The Committee consists of the following members:

Every year the President provides a report to the Council of Delegates, our senior governing body, about the events of the previous year. This year the Council will meet at the World Congress of Neurology and I shall report as follows.

2014 ENS Fellowship The European Neurological Society sponsors a fellowship program to provide an opportunity for young neurologists to participate in an exchange. It is aimed primarily at neurologists contributing actively at ENS Meetings. Applicants must be less than 40… Continue Reading

It is a great pleasure to introduce the recipients of the EFNS Fellowship 2013 (in alphabetical order) Scientific Fellowship: Francesca Antonelli from Italy was selected for her project DFDDNP-PET for in-vivo diagnosis of tauopathy in atypical and unclassified parkinsonism, which… Continue Reading

In the latest issue of the Communications of the European Neurological Society you will find information on: – The upcoming 23rd ENS Meeting in Barcelona, Spain
– 5th European Board Examiniation in Neurology
– ENS Fellowship Stipends 2014: Deadline –… Continue Reading

The problem of multiple sclerosis demands a multidisciplinary approach, so my clinical and research work made me face a lot of its serious issues: epidemiology, neurogenetics, neuroimmunology, diagnostics, treatment, rehabilitation, and social care.

One of my main interests in the field of Neurology is the study and treatment of Cerebrovascular Disorders. Stroke, the main representative of this issue, is the leading cause of disability and the second most common cause of death worldwide.

In 2011 I performed a scientific fellowship on the role of the plasminogen system in pneumococcal meningitis at the Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, in Munich, Germany which was funded by an EFNS scientific fellowship grant.

It is a great pleasure to introduce the recipients of the EFNS Fellowship 2012 (in alphabetical order): Scientific Fellowship: Olena Fartushna from Ukraine was selected for her project: cerebral ischaemia measured using MRI spectroscopy (cerebral ischaemia study) which she will… Continue Reading

In the last six months, the EFNS Scientific Fellowship programme gave me the opportunity to work as visiting scientist in the Laboratory for Molecular Neurology, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Orhan Aktas, at the Department of Neurology of the Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, chaired by Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Hartung.

Neuromuscular diseases did always grab my attention during my residency. Due to the rising importance of skin biopsy and its usefulness in the diagnosis of vasculitic neuropathy as well as small fiber neuropathy, I aimed to study in this field. As in my thesis I studied the activation of RAGE pathway in vasculitic neuropathy, axonal neuropathy and hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy patients’ nerve biopsies I decided to extend my research by analyzing this pathway in the skin samples of different neuropathies.