Mathew Cox

Mathew, a PhD student from the University of Newcastle in Australia, will use his £4500 grant to spend six months in the laboratory of Dr. Sawcer (Prof. Alistair Compston's group) in Cambridge University UK, where he will be analysing SNP variants in MS candidate genes.

Stefan Gold

The £1735 grant will enable Stefan a post-doctoral researcher from UCLA School of Medicine in USA, to spend 3 weeks at the MS society of NSW in Australia, where he will be studying endocrine-immune interactions in CIS.

Harald Hofstetter

Harald, a group leader at the Neurologische Universitätsklinik in Düsseldorf, will use his £4000 grant to spend four months in the Division of Neuroimmunology, University of Zurich, where he will be studying the role of sphingosine kinases in autoimmune CNS inflammation with Dr. Becher.

Jack van Horssen

Jack will use his £2000 grant to visit the MS Clinic and Neuroimmunology lab in Montreal, where he will work for two months with Dr. Alexandre Prat on neuroinflammation in primary brain endothelial cells and oligodendrocyte cultures. Jack is a postdoctoral researcher from the VU medical center in the Netherlands.

Marcus Koch

The £5000 grant will allow Marcus, a neurologist from the Groningen University Medical Center, to visit the University of British Columbia in Canada, where he will work on the epidemiology of progressive forms of MS with Dr. Helen Tremlett who was a 2006 Du Pré grant recipient.

Amir Hadi Maghzi

The £4,500 grant will help Amir Hadi Maghzi a 4th year medical student from the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in Iran, to spend 12 weeks under the supervision of Prof Gavin Giovannoni at the Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts and the London School of Medicine in London, where he will be investigating the role of Epstein Barr virus in multiple sclerosis aetiology.

Camilla Reali

Camilla Reali a Masters’ student from the University of Cagliari, Cittadella Universitaria, Monserrato, Italy, will use her £5000 grant to spend 6 months in the laboratory of Prof. Richard Reynolds at the Department of Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience, Imperial College, London, where she will study the mechanisms of demyelination and neurodegeneration in the spinal cord in MS.