Sebastian Jander

Education and scientific and professional activities:

• Head Department of the Clinic of Neurology and Epileptology, University Hospital Bonn (Germany)
• Head Department of the University Clinic of Neurology, Center for Neuroimmunology and Neuropsychology, Zurich (Switzerland)
• Defense of a doctoral dissertation on the topic of molecular genetic research in disorders of amino acid metabolism, Zurich (Switzerland)
• Defense of the second doctoral dissertation on the role of homocysteine metabolism in cerebrovascular, neuro-oncological and neurodegenerative diseases, Witten / Herdecke
• Accredited to provide consultations in the field of genetics of neurological diseases
• Certified to organize the diagnosis and treatment of multiple sclerosis
• Scientific coordinator of the interdisciplinary training course in neurobiology and neurorehabilitation
• Medical director of the Neurology department, interdisciplinary program for doctors SkillsLab
• Curator and scientific director of centers for training interdisciplinary nursing staff for patients with multiple sclerosis

Participation in professional communities:

• President of the Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society
• Scientific expert of the German Multiple Sclerosis Society
• Member of the International Medical and Scientific Council of the International Federation for Research in Multiple Sclerosis
• Member of the Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Society
• Member of the German Association for Neurological Rehabilitation
• Member of the scientific initiative for neurological rehabilitation and the creation of technological equipment, Zurich
• Member of the Center for Neuroscience, Zurich
• Member of the Parkinson's Disease Research Society UK
• Member of the Irish Population Health Research Society
• Member of the New Zealand Neurological Foundation

Research projects:

• In the field of multiple sclerosis (MS) - current types of therapy (including studies of the long-term effect of using certain medications in patients with limited mobility), neurological biomechanics in the development of MS, neurorehabilitation (especially motor function as an indicator of treatment outcome)
• Study of motor and neuropsychological parameters in secondary progressive MS, the influence of human polyomavirus type 2 on the choice of drug treatment tactics for MS
• Studies of methionine metabolism (including alcohol dependence, adrenoleukodystrophy, leukoencephalopathy as a result of chemotherapy and radiation therapy)
• Study of vitamin deficiency associated with taking anticonvulsants

Reports and organization of congresses and symposiums:

German Society of Neurologists, Neuropathologists; German Society of Psychiatrists and Psychotherapists, European Neurological Society, European Committee on Multiple Sclerosis, annual meetings of the Swiss Neurological Society, Symposium on Multiple Sclerosis (Zurich), German Society of Hematology and Medical Oncology, International Multiple Sclerosis Society, Tri-Country Symposium on Multiple Sclerosis, German Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Research, Working Group on Metabolic Diseases in Pediatrics, Swiss Society of Allergy and Immunology, World Congress on Homocysteine, Society for Inborn Disorders of Metabolism, Annual Meetings of the German Society for Neurological Rehabilitation, Annual Meetings of the German Society for Neurotraumatology and Clinical Neurological rehabilitation.

Consultant printed publications:

Addiction Biology, American Journal of Medical Genetics, Annals of Neurology, Archives of Medical Research, Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Atherosclerosis, BMC Neurology, Brain, Brain Research, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, Cell Biology and Toxicology, Central European Journal of Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Nutrition, European Journal of Neurology, European Neuropsychopharmacology, Experimental Neurology, Human Mutation, International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research, International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Biomedical Science, Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disorders, Journal of Medical Case Reports, Journal of Medical Genetics, Journal of Neuroinflammation, Journal of Pediatric Neurology, Journal of Rheumatology, Neurobiology of Disease, Neuropediatrics, Neuroscience Letters, Neurotoxicology, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry, North American Journal of Medical Sciences, Swiss Archives of Neurology, Scientific Reports, Swiss Medical Weekly, Thrombosis and Haemostasis, PlosOne, Molecular Nutrition and Food Research.