Presentation – Basic understanding of MS pathology and immunology

NIKOLAOS GRIGORIADIS
Prof Nikolaos Grigoriadis graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He did his PhD thesis and residency in Neurology in the same institution. He has been specialized in clinical and experimental Neuroimmunology and CNS immunopathology in a number of research centers and institutions abroad.

He is now Professor of Neurology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Head of the of the B’ Dept of Neurology, AHEPA University Hospital, the MS Centre and the Laboratory of Experimental Neurology and Neuroimmunology

VINCENT VAN PESCH
Prof. Vincent van Pesch is Clinical Head at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc and Principal Investigator of the Neurochemistry Unit (Institute of Neuroscience, UClouvain).

He is mainly involved in the diagnosis and treatment of neuro-immunological disorders, among which Multiple Sclerosis, with over 1000 patients followed. He is also involved in clinical neurophysiology and responsible for interpreting neurochemistry and neuro-immunological tests. He is involved in the international MSBase registry. His main research interests include biomarkers for MS and other neurological disorders, immunology of MS and more recently the role of microRNAs and extracellular vesicles in MS. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles.