It is a great pleasure to introduce the recipients of the Fellowship 2015 (in alphabetical order):
Scientific Fellowship:
Elena Antelmi from Italy was selected for her project: “Sensorimortor modulation in dystonia induced by low frequency (@1HZ) repetitive tactile stimulation” which she will carry out at the Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and MD, Clinical Neurology, UCL, Queen Square, London, UK chaired by Professor Bhatia
Ana Sofia Correia from Portugal was selected for her project: “Role of thyroid inflammation in autoimmunization to aquaporin-4 in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders” which she will carry out at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK chaired by Professor Kennard
Maria Pia Giannoccaro from Italy was selected for her project: “Search for autoantibodies in Narcolepsy with cataplexy patients” which she will carry out at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK chaired by Professor Kennard
Jan Friedrich Scheitz from Germany was selected for his project: “Statins and infectious complications after acute stroke” which he will carry out at the Virtual International Stroke Trials Archive (VISTA), University Department of Medicine & therapeutics, Glasgow, UK chaired by Professor Kennedy Lees
Atay Vural from Turkey was selected for his project: “Testing of anti-myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein and anti-neurofascin antibodies in patients with atypical central nervous system demyelinating disorders” which he will carry out at the Institute
of Clinical Neuroimmunology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich, Germany chaired by
Dr Meinl
Educational Fellowship:
Dimitros Chatzistefanidis from Greece was selected for his project: “Improved EEG-fMRI localisation of epileptic activity using advanced analysis techniques (MREG and Grouiller-Method)” which he will carry out at the Epilepsy center, University of Freiburg, chaired by Professor Schulze-Bonhage
Jelena Nikodinovic Glumac from Serbia was selected for her project: “Increasing the diagnostic yield in rare, inherited neuromuscular disorders (NMD) through the application of deep phenotyping and next-generation-sequencing (NGS)” which she will carry out at the Institute of Genetic Medicine, in coop with the department of neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Newcastle University and Newcastle Hospitals NHS chaired by Professor Chinnery
Ketevan Tsertsvadze from Georgia was selected for her project: “The global campaign against headache in collaboration with the EHF service improvement project: evaluation of headache service quality indicators” which she will carry out at the Evanglical Hospital Unna, Department of neurology, Unna, Germany chaired by Professor Katsarava
