Hans-Peter Hartung

Professor Hartung received his undergraduate training at the Universities of Düsseldorf, Glasgow, Oxford and London. After graduation magna cum laude as MD in 1980 he served an immunology fellowship at Johannes-Gutenberg-University of Mainz. He started his career in neurology at the University of Düsseldorf, where he became assistant profess or in 1987. He was appointed professor and head of the MS clinicalresearch group and Vice Chair of the Department of Neurology at Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg in 1990 and moved in 1997 to Graz, Austria, to become chairman of the University Department of Neurology. In 2001 he was of fered a chair in MS research by the University of Glasgow and the MRC. He was chairman of the Department of Neurology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf from 2001-2020, director of the Center for Neurology and Neuropsychiatry from 2012 – 2020 and director of the Department of Conservative Medicine from 2012 – 2019 . He is currently Professor of Neurology at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Honorary Professor, Brain and Mind Center, University of Sydney, Visiting Professor at Medical University Vienna and Palacky University Olomouc. Professor Hartung ’s clinical and translational research interests are in the field of basic and clinical neuroimmunology and in particular multiplescleros is and immune neuropathies , development of new immunological, neuroprotective and neuralrepair promoting strategies. He has authored or co-authored more than 950 articles in peer-reviewed journals, one hundred book chapters and edited nine books. He is a Highly Cited Researcher 2017, 2018, 2020 (Web of Science, Clarivate) . He has been involved as member of the Steering Committee in numerous international multi-centre therapeutic phase 2 and 3 trials in Multiple Sclerosis, Guilla in Barré Syndrome and CIDP. He was President of ECTRIMS and has served / serves amongst others on the executive boards of the European Charcot Foundation (treasurer and Vice President) , the European Neurological Society, the International Society of Neuroimmunology, Peripheral Nerve Society, INC (Inflammatory Neuropathy Cause and Treatment Consortium),WHO Working Group on Multiple Sclerosis, GBS CIDP Foundation International , the Medica l Advisory Board of the International (MS IF) and the German MS Society (Vice Chair ) and Chair of German MS Society State of North Rhine Westphalia and the US NMS Society and ECTR IMS clinical trials committee. He is member of the executive board of the International Multiple Sclerosis Cognition Society (IMSCOGS).

He is/ was also member of the Editorial Board of a number of international journals including Annals of Neurology, CNS Drugs, Neurotherapeutics, Current Opinion in Neurology, European Neurology ( As sociate Editor) , Journal of Clinical Medicine, Journal of Neuroimmunology, Journal of Neuroinflammation (Associate Editor), Journal of Neurology, Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery Psychiatry, Nature Reviews of Neurology, Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair (Associate Editor), Frontiers Immunology, Frontiers Neurology/ Immu-nology (Chief Special ty Editor Multiple Scleros is and Neuroimmunology), Muscle Nerve, Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders, Vaccines and others. Professor Hartung is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, Fellow and general assembly member of the European Academy of Neurology, has been chair/member of the management group of the EAN scientific panels on general neurology and multiple sclerosis; Corresponding Fellow of the American Neurological Association, the American Heart Association (Stroke Council), Honorary Member of the All Russian Neurological Society, Honorary Member of ECTRIMS, Honorary Member of the French Neurological Society, Honorary Member of the Polish Neurological Society, Member of the Association of British Neurologists and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) .