fellowship

It is a great pleasure to introduce the recipients of the Research Fellowship 2016 (in alphabetical order):

Report from Shabnam Khalilova from Azerbaijan visiting the Department of Neurology at the Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway under the supervision of Professor Ole Björn Tysnes It was my big dream to visit a European hospital and to observe the… Continue Reading

It was a great honour and pleasure to be selected by the Education and Training Committee of the EFNS.

I have spent one year in the laboratory at the Department of Neurology of the University Hospital of Würzburg (the head of laboratory is Prof. Dr. Claudia Sommer). During this time, I was supported by a stipend granted by the… Continue Reading

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… Continue Reading

Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): As Member at Large to the EAN, can you illustrate the role you give to EAN within the community of European Neurologists? Per Soelberg Sorensen (PSS): As member at Large to the EAN I am proud to be a part of this new important amalgamation of ENS and EFNS. It is the aim of the new board to develop EAN into a European organisation that can match the American Academy of Neurology in worldwide importance.

My research project was performed at the University of Glasgow, Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, UK in the laboratory chaired by Professor Hugh Willison.

In 2015, up to 5 scientific and up to 3 educational fellowships will be offered to support young European neurologists to carry out research projects in clinical and basic neurology. The objective is to support young and active neurologists wishing… Continue Reading

Gian Luigi Lenzi (GLL): As Secretary General to EAN, can you illustrate the role you give to EAN within the community of European Neurologists? Didier Leys (DL): The EAN is a society of both individual members and national societies. This… Continue Reading

 We have learned from Dr Paolo Giannetti, Italy, that his research supported by the EFNS Fellowship in 2009 has recently been published in Neurobiology of Disease, 65 (2014) 203-210: “Microglia activation in multiple sclerosis black holes predicts outcome in progressive… Continue Reading

In the past year, the EFNS TEC has continued working with the same leadership.

It is a great pleasure to introduce the recipients of the Fellowship 2014 (in alphabetical order):

For a period of 6 months, supported by the EFNS educational fellowship, I spent an amazing and enriching period of my life at the Child Neurology Department, Hospital San Joan De Deu, Barcelona, Spain, with Dr. A. Garcia Cazorla’s research team.

In 2014, up to 5 scientific and up to 3 educational fellowships will be offered to support young European neurologists to carry out research projects in clinical and basic neurology. The objective is to support young and active neurologists wishing to expand their knowledge in neurology by working on scientific projects, and most of all, to study the practice of neurology in different countries, and thereby also creating new and international connections.

I have had the great honor of being one of the neurologists selected by the EFNS Training and Education Committee for the 2012 Scientific Fellowship. I have spent a year in the Neurology Department of the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.