The ECTRIMS is pleased to announce the winners of the best oral presentations given by young investigators and the best poster presentations:
Young Researchers Prizes
Owain Howell (London, UK)
Programme Number 6
The incidence of meningeal B-cell follicles in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis: a neuropathological study of 96 cases
O.W. Howell, C. Reeves, R. Magliozzi, D. Carassiti, R. Nicholas, B. Radotra, S. Gentlemen, F. Roncaroli, F. Aloisi, R. Reynolds
(London, UK; Rome, IT)
and
Clemens Warnke (Düsseldorf, DE)
Programme Number 112
No evidence for mobilisation of JC-virus-infected CD34+ haematopoietic progenitor cells in MS patients treated with natalizumab
C. Warnke, V. Smolianov, O. Adams, F. Zooren, H. Hengel, R. Haas, H.-P. Hartung, B.C. Kieseier
(Düsseldorf, DE)
Poster Prizes
1st Prize
Josa Frischer (Vienna, AT)
Programme Number P590
Interdependence of inflammation and neurodegeneration. Or: is there really neurodegeneration occurring independently from inflammation in multiple
J.M. Frischer, S. Bramow, A. Dal-Bianco, C. Lucchinetti, H. Rauschka, M. Schmidbauer, H. Laursen, P.S. Sørensen, H. Lassmann
(Vienna, AT; Copenhagen, DK; Rochester, US)
2nd Prize
Alexandra Seewann (Amsterdam, NL)
Programme Number P393
What does MRI of the MS cortical grey matter measure? A post mortem imaging exploration
A. Seewann, H. Vrenken, P. Pouwels, C.H. Polman, F. Barkhof, J. Geurts
(Amsterdam, NL)
3rd Prize
Klaus Schmierer (London, UK)
Programme Number P333
Quantifying cortical pathology in multiple sclerosis using high-field MRI
H. Parkes, P.W. So, S. Brandner, S. An, D. Miller, T. Yousry, K. Schmierer
(London, UK)
and
Frédéric Blanc (Strasbourg, FR)
Programme Number P690
Unconventional spinal cord and brain MRI in neuromyelitis optica
J. de Seze, N. Collongues, J. Jeantroux, F. Rousseai, X. Lin, F. Blanc, M. Fleury, J.P. Armspach, I. Namer, S. Kremer
(Strasbourg, FR)
and
Maria Pia Sormani (Genoa, IT)
Programme Number P210
Relapses as surrogates for disability progression in multiple sclerosis: a meta-analytic approach
L. Bonzano, L. Roccatagliata, G.L. Mancardi, P. Bruzzi, A. Uccelli, M.P. Sormani
(Genoa, IT)