EFNS Fellowship in the past
Fellowship 2011
Scientific Fellowship
Daniele Belvisi from Italy was selected for his project: Primary motor cortex plasticity in patients with Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (GTS) and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) which he will carry out at the UCL, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK chaired by Prof. John Rothwell
Matthijs Brouwer from The Netherlands was selected for his project: The plasminogen system in bacterial meningitis which he will carry out at the Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany chaired by Prof. Hans-Walter Pfister
Diana Buniatyan from Armenia was selected for her project: Investigations of the changed endogenous pain inhibition at the patients with complex regional pain syndrome. Is it a predispositional factor or a result? which she will carry out at the Johannes Gutenberg University, Department of Neurology, Mainz, Germany chaired by Prof. Frank Birklein
Anett Csati from Hungary was selected for her project: The effect of kynurenines on the trigeminovascular system (pathomechanism of migraine) which she will carry out at the University of Lund, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Sweden chaired by Prof. Lars Edvinsson
Lorenzo de Santi from Italy was selected for his project: Targeting calcium homeostasis for neuroprotection in the CNS which he will carry out at the Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Department of Neurology, Düsseldorf, Germany chaired by Prof. Hans-Peter Hartung
Edoardo Malfatti from Italy was selected for his project: Natural history of SEPN1 related myopathy and first clinical trial with N-acetylcysteine which he will carry out at the Hopital Raymond Poincare, Department Paediatric Neurology, Garches, France chaired by Prof. Brigitte Estournet
Vera Nezgovorova from Russia was selected for her project: Clinical and immunological features of late-onset myasthenia (LOMG) in comparison to early-onset myasthenia (EOMG) which she will carry out at the Neuromuscular Unit, Department of Neurology, Pitie Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, France chaired by Prof. Bruno Eymard
Costanza Rossi from Italy was selected for her project: Late seizures in a cohort of spontaneous intracerebral haemorrhages: incidence, predictive factors and influence on long-term outcome which she will carry out at the Hospital Roger Salengro, Department of Neurology, CHRU Lille, France chaired by Prof. Didier Leys
Gaia Sirimarco from Italy was selected for her project: Evaluating carotid plaque instability using multimodal imaging which she will carry out at the Diderot University, Department of neurology and stroke Center, Paris, France chaired by Prof. Pierre Amarenco
Radu Tanasescu from Romania was selected for his project: Phenotypic characteristics, immune interactions and ultra-high field imaging of autologus mesenchymal stem cells from multiple sclerosis (MS) patients which he will carry out at the Division of Clinical Neurology, University Hospital, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK chaired by Prof. Cris Constantinescu
Due to the fact that some Fellowship winners applied for short term grants, the EFNS could select 10 instead of 8 Scientific Fellowships for 2011.
Educational Fellowship
Edita Kanyte-Veniene from Lithuania was selected for her project: Age-related morphometry of skin nerves fibres in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A (CMT1A) which she will carry out at the National Neurological Institute Carlo Besta, Neuromuscular and Neuroimmunology Department, Milan, Italy chaired by Prof. Renato Montegazza
Can Ebru Kurt from Turkey was selected for her project: Activation of RAGE and NF-kB in Skin Biopsy of Patients with Vasculitic and Diabetic Neuropathy which she will carry out at the University of Würzburg, Department of Neurology,Würzburg, Germany chaired by Prof. Jens Volkmann
Miguel Milheiro from Portugal was selected for his project: Educational project on rare neurological diseases which he will carry out at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Department of clinical neurology, Oxford, UK chaired by Prof. David Hilton-Jones
Yana Motuzova from Belarus was selected for her project: Prognostic value of CSF, MRI and clinical data in clinically isolated syndromes for subsequent progression to multiple sclerosis and its course which she will carry out at the Hospital San Luigi, Department of Neurology 2, CRESM, Orbassano, Italy chaired by Dr. Antonio Bertolotto
Elena Oana Terecoasa from Romania was selected for her project: Stroke outcome after intravenous thrombolysis in patients with atrial fibrillation which she will carry out at the University Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Department of Neurology, Madrid, Spain chaired by Dr. Fernandez Ruiz
Fellowship 2010
Scientific Fellowship
Marcel Aries from the Netherlands was selected for his project: Optimization of cerebral perfusion pressure after traumatic brain injury which he will carry out at the Academic Neurosurgery Unit, University of Cambridge, UK chaired by Professor John D. Pickard
Bence Gunda from Hungary was selected for his project: Whole brain histograms of ADC in CADASIL which he will carry out at the Department of Neurology, Hospital Lariboisière, Paris, France chaired by Professor Hugues Chabriat
Senta Frol from Slovenia was selected for her project: Lesion probability maps as a tool to assess differential treatment response to Interferon-Beta, Glatiramer acetate and Natalizumab which she will carry out at the Multiple Sclerosis Centre of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain chaired by Professor Xavier Montalban
Agata Gajos from Poland was selected for her project: Environmental modifiers of DYT1 dystonia - a case control study which she will carry out at the Institute of Neurology, National Hospital Queen Square, London, UK chaired by Professor Peter Brown
Mansur Kutlubaev from Russia was selected for his project: Fatigue after stroke: does it have biological basis which he will carry out at the Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK chaired by Professor Peter Sandercock
Katiuscia Nardi from Italy was selected for her project: Fronto-Temporal connectivity: Influence of HDL-C cholesterol levels on outcome in patients treated by intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator for acute cerebral ischaemia which she will carry out at the Department of Neurology and Neurovascular Pathology, Hospital Roger Salengro, Lille, France chaired by Professor Didier Leys
Kristiina Rannikmae from Estonia was selected for her project: Genetics of brain microbleeds which she will carry out at the Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK chaired by Professor Peter Sandercock
Juan Carlos Sanchez Manso from Spain was selected for his project: Usefulness of different autonomic tests in the diagnosis of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome which he will carry out at the Institute of Neurology, National Hospital Queen Square, London, UK chaired by Professor Christopher Mathias
Johann Sellner from Germany was selected for his project: Immunogenetics of Herpes simplex encephalitis which he will carry out at the Department of Neurology, Christian Doppler Clinic, Private Medical University of Salzburg, Austria chaired by Professor Gunther Ladurner
Maria Stamelou from Germany was selected for her project: Pathophysiology of genetic primary dystonias: DYT6 which she will carry out at the Department of Motor neurosciences and movement disorders, National Hospital Queen Square, London, UK chaired by Professor Kailash Bhatia
Due to the fact that some Fellowship winners applied for short term grants, the EFNS could select 10 instead of 8 Scientific Fellowships for 2010.
Educational Fellowship
Sergiu Albu from Moldova was selected for his project: Effectiveness of transcranial direct stimulation in the treatment of chronic neuropathic pain in spinal cord injury which he will carry out at the Institut Universitari de Neurorehabilitació Guttman, Barcelona, Spain chaired by Dr. Josep Muñoz
Marcio Neves Cardoso from Portugal, was selected for his project: Training and clinical and laboratory research in Neuromuscular Diseases (Nerve excitability studies in hereditary neuropathies) which he will carry out at the National Hospital for Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK chaired by Professor Martin Koltzenburg
Maria Ester Coutinho from Portugal was selected for her project: Clinical and serological training of the myasthenic syndromes which she will carry out at the Oxford Myasthenia Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, London, UK, chaired by Professor David Hilton-Jones
Rui Jorge Rocha Felgueiras from Portugal, was selected for his project: Clinical training and investigation on stroke disorders" which he will carry out at the Stroke Prevention Research Unit, University of Oxford, UK chaired by Professor Peter Rothwell
Fellowship 2009
Scientific Fellowship
Maria Centeno Soladana from Spain was selected for her project: Fronto-Temporal connectivity: A functional MRI study of memory encoding dysfunction in Frontal lobe epilepsy, which she will carry out at the Department of clinical and experimental epilepsy, at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, UK, chaired by Professor John S. Duncan.
Chiara Criscuolo from Italy was selected for her project: Identification of a gene causing autosomal dominant essential tremor, which she will carry out at the department of clinical genetics at the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, chaired by Professor Ben Oostra.
Paolo Giannetti from Italy was selected for his project: The role of white and grey matter and meningeal inflammation in MS and clinically isolated syndromes (CIS) as quantified using [(11)C]®-PK11195 positron emission tomography (PET) scanning, which he will carry out at the Multiple Sclerosis Trial Collaboration, Charing Cross Campus, Imperial College in London, UK, chaired by Doctor Richard Nicholas.
Valerie Hirt from Germany, was selected for her project: Retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) thickness measured by optical coherence tomography (OCT) as a biomarker for axonal degeneration in patients with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS), which she will carry out at the Neuroscience Center, at BARTS and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry in London, UK, chaired by Professor Gavin Giovannoni.
Reka Horvath from Hungary was selected for her project: Influence of epileptic activity on amygdale functions – an fMRI project, which she will carry out at the Clinic Mara, at the Epilepsy Center Bethel in Bielefeld, Germany, chaired by Doctor Alois Ebner.
Chiara Marini Bettolo from Italy, was selected for her project: Chromowave analysis of the expression profile and chromosomal changes in Inclusion Body Myositis, which she will carry out at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the Charing Cross Campus, Imperial College in London, UK, chaired by Professor David Brooks.
Olga Uspenskaya from Russia, was selected for her project: Neurochemical and Neuroimaging Markers in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, which she will carry out at the Center of Cognitive and behavioural disorders, at the Hospital “la Salpêtrière” in Paris, France chaired by Professor Bruno Dubois.
Krisztina Vörös from Hungary, was selected for her project: Role of the kynurenine system in ALS mouse models, which she will carry out at the Department of Neurology, at the University of Ulm in Germany, chaired by Professor Albert Ludolph.
Educational Fellowship
Maria Aguirregomozcorta from Spain, was selected for her project: Sensory temporal discrimination and mental rotation in patients with fixed dystonia, which she will carry out at the National Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queensquare, London, UK, chaired by Professor Kailash P. Bhatia.
Araceli Alonso Canovas from Spain, was selected for her project: Myoclonus and paroxysmal dyskinesia: Focus on clinical and neurophysiological feature,s which she will carry out at the National Institute for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queensquare, London, UK, chaired by Professor Kailash P. Bhatia.
Ioana Dumitru from Romania, was selected for her project: Ictal Hipoxemia in localisation related epilepsy, which she will carry out at the Department of Neurology, at the Epilepsy Center Marburg, Germany chaired by Professor Felix Rosenow.
Andrei Ivashynka from Belarus was selected for his project: The role of Alcohol use in patients with a first epileptic seizure: A long-term follow-up study of two large cohorts, which he will carry out at the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation, at the University of Piemonte in Novara, Italy, chaired by Professor Francesco Monaco.
Ricardo Taipa from Portugal was selected for his project: "Clinical and pathological training in neurodegenerative dementia, which he will carry out at the School of Translational Medicine, at the University of Manchester, Hope Hospital, Manchester, UK, chaired by Professor David Mann.
Nune S. Yeghiazaryan from Armenia was selected for her project: DNA copy number variations in idiopathic epilepsy, which she will carry out at the G. Gaslini Institute in Genova, Italy, chaired by Professor Carlo Minetti.
Fellowship 2008
Scientific Fellowship
Jorge Alberto Diaz Manera from Spain was selected for his project Evaluation of treatment with intraarterial injection of mesoangioblasts in a natural animal model of dysferlinopathy, which he will carry out at the Stem Cell Research Institute, Hospital San Raffaele, Milan, Italy, chaired by Dr. Giulio Cossu.
Urs Fischer from Switzerland was selected for his project Population based study of outcome in acute stroke patients with minimal or mild symptons: Impact of stroke severity, stroke subtype, and stroke etiology, which he will carry out at the University of Oxford, Stroke prevention research unit, Radcliff infirmary, chaired by Prof. Dr. Peter Rothwell.
Daniel Hořinek from Czech Republic was selected for his project Diffusion tensor imaging in epilepsy surgery, which he will carry out at the University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Department of Neurosurgery, Erlangen, Germany, chaired by Prof. Dr. Michael Buchfelder.
Maja Kojovic from Slovenia was selected for her project Low frequency (1Hz) repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as adjunctive treatment in patients with "fixed" limb dystonia, which she will carry out at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK, chaired by Prof. Dr. Kailash Bhatia.
Veronica Neacsu from Romania was selected for her project Incidence, predictive factors and influence in prognosis of post-stroke dementia in a cohort of non-traumatic intra-cerebral haemorrhages, which she will carry out at Lille University Hospital, Hôpital Roger Salengro, Lille, France, chaired by Prof. Dr. Didier Leys.
Maria Chiara Ricciardi from Italy was selected for her project Timing of recanalization and plaque characterization in patients with tandem ICA/MCA occlusion treated with intravenous thombolysis, which she will carry out at the Neurovascular Unit, Department of Neurology, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain, chaired by Dr. Carlos Molina.
Ana Sundić from Serbia was selected for her project Headache in perimenstrual period - clinical features and sex hormones, CGRP, angiotensine II and prostaglandins, which she will carry out at the Department of Neurology, Glostrup Hospital, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, chaired by Prof. Dr. Jes Olesen.
Daniella Terney from Hungary was selected for her project 1.Muscle electrical activity during generalized tonic and tonic-clonic seizures 2.Modulation of interictal EEG discharges by neuropsychological tests, which she will carry out at the Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Danish Epilepsy Centre, Dianalund, Denmark, chaired by Dr. Jørgen Alving.
Luigi Zuliani from Italy was selected for his project Central nervous system autoimmune channelopathies: in vitro characterization of autoantibody pathoenicity, which he will carry out at the University of Oxford, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Infirmary; Headington; UK, chaired by Prof. Dr. Angela Vincent.
Educational Fellowship
Alexandru Hanganu from Moldova was selected for his project Transcranial cortex stimulation of the ipsilesional motor cortex in healthy subjects and patients with subcortial motor stroke: a combines TMS+tDCS approach to improve motor function, which he will carry out at the Uni-Klinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Clinic of Neurology, Campus Kiel, Germany, chaired by Prof. Dr. Günther Deuschl.
Alexander Ivanov Karameshev from Bulgaria was selected for his project Non-invasive Detection of Vulnerable Carotid Atherosclerosis Plaques Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging, which he will carry out at the University Clinic of Neurology, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland, chaired by Prof. Dr. Christian Hess.
Maria Branimirova Milenkova from Bulgaria was selected for her project Volition and conflict in Parkinson's disease, which she will carry out at the Medical School Hannover, Germany, chaired by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Dengler.
Zulfiya Mirzadjanova from Uzbekistan was selected for her project Quantificative analysis of limb motor automatism for lateralization of focal epilepsies, which she will carry out at the Epilepsy Center and Neurological Sleep Center, Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany, chaired by Prof. Dr. Soheyl Noachtar.
Fellowship 2007
Scientific Fellowship
Dinia Lavinia from Genova, Italy was selected for her project Time course of sonothrombolysis enhanced by microbubbles in acute stroke, which she will carry out at the Neurovascular Department, Vall d’Hebron Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, chaired by Dr. Carlos Monina Cateriano.
João Nuno Marques Parracho Guerra da Costa from Lisbon, Portugal was selected for his project Time perception and motor learning in patients with Parkinson’s disease before and after deep brain stimulation, which he will carry out at the Neurology Department, Clinic University Hospital of Barcelona, Spain, chaired by Prof. Dr. Josep Valls-Solé.
Zoltán Horváth from Szeged, Hungary was selected for his project Investigation of endothelial dysfunction in mitochondrial respiratory chain disease, which he will carry out at the Department of Neurology, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden, Germany chaired by Prof. Dr. Heinz Reichmann.
Irene Martinez Torres from Valencia, was selected for her project Optimisation and quantification of the stimulation parameters in subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease, which she will carry out at the Sobell Department, University College of London, chaired by Prof. Dr. Peter Brown.
Luigi Michele Antonio Romito from Milano, Italy was selected for his project Deep brain stimulation in Tourette’s syndrome, which he will carry out at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Grenoble, France, chaired by Prof. Dr. Pierre Pollak.
Oliver Summ from Münster, Germany was selected for his project Investigations of activated trigemino-thalamic projection neurons, which he will carry out at the Institute of Neurology, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK, chaired by Prof. Dr. Peter Goadsby.
Anna-Elisabetta Vaudano from Rome, Italy was selected for her project Ictal EEG/fMRI study of absence in a population of patients with newly diagnosed idiopathic generalized epilepsy, which she will carry out at the Department of Clinical and experimental Epilepsy, The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK, chaired by Prof. Dr. John S. Duncan.
Fellowship 2006
Scientific Fellowship
Maria Contarino, Rome, Italy for her project The application of EMG coherence analysis in movement disorders and associated psychiatric symptoms, which she will carry out at the Department of Neurology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, chaired by Prof. M. Vermeulen.
Matthew Fraidakis from Uppsala, Sweden for his project In vivo time-lapse imaging with 2-Photon Laser Scanning Microscopy of neurons and glial cells in the pathogenesis of ischaemic and traumatic CNS injury, which he will carry out at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland, chaired by Prof. J. Bogousslavsky.
Varduhi Hovhannisyan from Yerevan, Armenia for her project Changes in adenosine modulation of mossy fiber signalling in epilepsy, which she will carry out at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, University College London, UK, chaired by Prof. J. Duncan.
Blaz Koritnik from Ljubljana, Slovenia for his project Neural control of breathing in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients, which he will carry out at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK, chaired by Prof. P. Nigel Leigh.
Andreas Lutterotti from Innsbruck, Austria for his project MRI-controlled phase I/II trial for treatment of relapsing MS, using peptide-coupled peripheral blood lymphocytes tolerance, which he will carry out at Unitat de Neuroimmunologia Clinica, ICREA, Barcelona, Spain, chaired by Prof. X. Montalban and Prof. R. Martin.
Gürdal Sahin from Istanbul, Turkey for his project Role of inflammation in dopaminergic neurodegeneration induced by overexpression of alpha-synuclein using viral vectors, which he will carry out at the Department of experimental medical sciences, Lund University, Sweden, chaired by Dr. D. Kirik.
Carmen Terranova from Messina, Italy for her project Effect of deep brain stimulation on associative plasticity in dystonias as tested with a transcranial magnetic stimulation approach, which she will carry out at the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK, chaired by Prof. J. Rothwell.
Fellowship 2005
Scientific Fellowship
Xavier de Tiege from Belgium for his project EEG-functional MRI in pharmacoresistant partial epilepsy, which he will carry out at the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Unversity College of London, London, UK chaired by Prof. R. Surtees, Prof. H. Cross and Prof. A. Connelly
Dagmara Mirowska from Poland for her project Analysis of persephin (PSP) in white blood cells of patients with multiple sclerosis and healthy donors, which she will carry out at the Max-Planck-Institut of Psychiatry, Section of Neurology – Research Group Inflammatory Disorders of the Central Nervous System, Munich, Germany, chaired by Dr. F. Holsboer
Rositsa Poryazova from Bulgaria for her project Neuroimaging studies in narcolepsy, which she will carry out at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland, chaired by Prof. C. Bassetti
Lara Sanvito from Italy was selected for her project Immune responses to peripheral nerve myelin proteins in Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) which she will carry out at the Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ School of Medicine, Department of Neurosciences, London, UK, chaired by Prof. R. Hughes
Laura Anna van de Pol from The Netherlands for her project Hippocampal atrophy on serial MRI scans in early versus late onset Alzheimer’s disease, which she will carry out at the Dementia Research Centre, Institute of Neurology, University College London, Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College London, UK, chaired by Prof. M.N. Rossor
Fellowship 2004
Scientific Fellowship
Victoria González Martinez from Spain for the project Genetic characterization of the congenital myopathy multi-minicore disease. She will go to the department of Dr. P. Guicheney, Institut de Myologie, Bâtiment Joseph Babinski, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France to carry out this project.
Marcin Mycko from Poland for the project The analysis of CD1 mediated myelin antigens presentation in the development of central nervous system autoimmune demyelination - implications for multiple sclerosis. He is working at the Department of Neurology, Medical University of Lodz, Poland and will go to the department of Prof. H.R. MacDonald, Developmental Immunology Group, Ludwig's Institute for the Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland to carry out this project.
Fellowship 2003
Scientific Fellowship
Aileen McGonigal from the UK for the project “The role of clinical seizure semiology in localizing the epileptogenic zone”. She is working at the Institute of Neurological Sciences, Southern General Hospital and will go to the department of Prof.P. Chauvel, Faculté de Médecine, Hôpital de la Timône, Marseille, France to carry out this project.
Camelia Musuroi from Romania was selected for her project: "Study of variations of metalloproteinases during the course of MS", which she will carry out at the University of Ferrara, Italy, Department of Neurology chaired by Prof. E. Granieri.