Andreas Horn, MD, PhD is a professor of Neurology at the Harvard Medical School who specializes in neuroimaging, method development, movement disorders, and invasive brain stimulation. His research aims to analyze and modulate brain networks to enhance clinical treatments, particularly focusing on movement disorders. He is also the Director of the Deep Brain Stimulation Research within the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Moreover, he has received previous awards for his openly accessible software toolbox for localizing deep brain stimulation electrode placement on postoperative leading.

Andreas Puschmann, MD is an associate professor of Neurology at the Lund University of Sweden. He is a principal investigator for Clinical Neurogenetics. His multidisciplinary research focuses on Parkinson’s disease. His latest projects have been about genetic diagnostics of rare neurological diseases in adults as well as investigating genetic causes of neurological movement disorders. For his work, he has received the Bundy Academy Research Award.

Since 2018 Prof. Dr. Kipp is Director of the Institute of Anatomy. He and his research group are interested to understand the physiology and pathology of the axon-oligodendrocyte-myelin unit. Particularly, they are interested to understand to what extend stressed oligodendrocytes regulate peripheral immune cell recruitment, and by which neuroanatomical pathways peripheral immune cells gain access into the CNS parenchyma. To address their scientific challenges they use state of the art techniques such as design-based stereology, a set of behavioral analyses such as high speed ventral plane videography, or positron emission tomography/computed tomography. Whenever possible, they compare their pre-clinical results with post-mortem samples, obtained from MS patient donors.