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Report on an EAN Research Fellowship 2021 at Amsterdam UMC

Report on an EAN Research Fellowship 2020 at the French Reference Center of Paraneoplastic Neurological Syndromes and Autoimmune Encephalitis, Lyon, France.

From February to July 2021, I attended the Clinical Neurophysiology Unit of Uppsala University and Hospital and took part in both clinical and research activity.

During my nine-month research fellowship granted by the European Academy of Neurology I have had the opportunity to carry out my research project at Newcastle University (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK) and the affiliated NHS movement disorders clinic.

It is with a great pleasure that I report on my experience enabled by the EAN Research Fellowship Programme. My research training took place over a period of 24 weeks in 2021 at the Neuroinfection Laboratory of the Institute for Infectious Diseases in Bern.

I would like to express my immense gratitude to the European Academy of Neurology for granting me a 12-month research training fellowship. This gave me the opportunity to join the Clinical Neuroimmunology Lab at the University of Basel, under the supervision of Prof. Derfuss. It has been a great honour for me to work in one of the leading multiple sclerosis research groups.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the European Academy of Neurology for having granted my research training Fellowship at the Neurodegeneration Imaging Group (NIG; www.nig-politis.com), based at the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London, UK. The NIG is headed by Professor Marios Politis, who is leading expert in the field of neuroimaging in neurodegenerative diseases.

I would like to convey my sincere gratitude to the European Academy of Neurology for having granted me a research experience fellowship at the Epilepsy Unit in Timone Hospital, Marseille supervised by Professor Fabrice Bartolomei.

It was a great honor for me to be awarded with the European Academy of Neurology Research Experience Fellowship. During my Fellowship I was for six months (January 2019 to June 2019) at the Department of Neurology, St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany to perform the project “Transorbital Sonography in patients with Optic Neuritis”.

Reports from the view of the visitor.

Fellowship project: Clinico-pathological correlations in FTD: a study in the Dutch population

Being an EAN Research Fellow gave me the privilege to work in Prof. Tara Spires-Jones’ Lab in The University of Edinburgh, who is a pioneer in the field of synaptic degeneration in neurodegenerative conditions and healthy aging. I worked in the lab for more than a year, carrying out the research project entitled ‘Investigating degeneration of inhibitory circuits in Alzheimer’s disease brain’. It has been an exceptional scientific and personal experience that will have a profound influence on my future career.

I am really grateful to the European Academy of Neurology for having granted my training research fellowship at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences of the University of Cambridge. During the final year of my residency in Neurology at the Sapienza University of Rome, I had the great honour to join the research group of Professor Mariagrazia Spillantini, who discovered - in 1997 - the presence of alpha-synuclein in Lewy bodies, the pathological hallmarks of Parkinson’s Disease.

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the European Academy of Neurology for having granted me a training research fellowship at the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences at University of Oxford.

I would like to state my deepest gratitude and appreciation to the European Academy of Neurology for having granted me the research-training fellowship for 12 months at Prof. Benazzouz Abdelhamid’s research group, at the Institute of Neurodegenerative disease, Bordeaux University, France.