Speaker: Alex Flügel
Location: Biomedical Sciences Building, University of Galway
Date: Thursday, 24th July 2025
Professor Alexander Flügel took up his current position at the Georg-August University Göttingen as Director of the Institute for Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Research in 2008.
His main research interest is the mechanisms and factors that allow immune cells to enter the central nervous system, to communicate in this milieu and to influence brain tissue, particularly in relation to multiple sclerosis.
Professor Flügel is an expert in applying and optimizing intravital imaging technologies such as two-photon laser scanning microscopy to analyze the autoimmune attack of the CNS in experimental autoimmune encephalitis (EAE), an animal model for multiple sclerosis.
He and his colleagues pursue the following aims:
- development of new models and tools to study CNS autoimmunity
- revealing the basics of pathogenesis in (auto-)immune diseases of the nervous system
- deducing and developing new therapeutical approaches; and
- analyzing the mechanisms of action for (adverse) effects of new therapeutical procedures.
The event is hosted by Thomas Ritter.
