Professor Veronica Popescu, MD, PhD

University Multiple Sclerosis Centre Pelt-Hasselt, Belgium, Noorderhart Hospital Campus Rehabilitation & Multiple Sclerosis, and Hasselt University, Belgium

Professor Celia Oreja-Guevara, MD, PhD

University Hospital San Carlos, and Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Professor Celia Oreja-Guevara is Vice Chair of Neurology at the University Hospital San Carlos and Professor of Neurology at the Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.

After gaining her medical degree from the University of Madrid, Professor Oreja-Guevara completed her PhD thesis in Neuroimmunology at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Munich, Germany. She then completed her residency in the Department of Neurology at the University of Bochum, Germany, followed by a one-year fellowship in neuroimaging at the University Hospital, San Raffaele, Milan, Italy. Since then, Professor Oreja-Guevara has held several posts, including: Senior Neurologist at the University of Dusseldorf, Germany, Head of Neurology, Hospital de Fuenlabrada and Chair of the Multiple Sclerosis Center, University Hospital La Paz, both in Madrid, Spain.

Professor Oreja-Guevara’s main areas of research interest are clinical and neuroimaging correlations in multiple sclerosis, family planning, the use of optical coherence tomography symptomatic therapy, neuromyelitis optica, and the evaluation of new drugs for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica. She is Co-Chair of the Multiple Sclerosis Panel of the European Academy of Neurology and serves as an expert for the Scientific Advisory Group on Neurology of the European Medicines Agency. In addition, Professor Oreja-Guevara has held leadership positions in a number of national organisations and academic societies, including the Demyelinating Diseases Group and the Neuroimaging Group of the Spanish Neurological Society. Having authored more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals, Professor Oreja-Guevara is actively involved in the evaluation of new therapies for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and has participated in several clinical trials as a principal investigator and member of several steering committees.

Disclosures: Has received honoraria, research grants or advisor invitations from Bayer, Biogen, Merck Serono, Novartis, BMS, Janssen, Roche, Sanofi, and Teva Pharmaceuticals.

Professor Bart Van Wijmeersch, MD, PhD

University Multiple Sclerosis Centre Pelt-Hasselt, and Hasselt University, Belgium

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Biomarkers of Smoldering Neuroinflammation in the Central Nervous System

Sanofi at EAN 2023

Learn about the drivers of multiple sclerosis disability accumulation, the unique role of smoldering neuroinflammation, and the role of “big data” in central nervous system biomarkers of the future.

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Describe how to understand and detect progression independent of relapse activity
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Understand central nervous system biomarkers and the future of multiple sclerosis

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