Christina Mayer obtained her medical degree from the University of Heidelberg and trained at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and University College London. Fascinated by the fine-tuned interplay between immune cells and neurons, she carried out her MD thesis in the Department of Neurology in Heidelberg investigating neurodegenerative alterations in retinal ganglion cells during onset of autoimmune optic neuritis in an animal model of Multiple Sclerosis. She started her residency in the Department of Neurology at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in 2019. Since the beginning of 2020, she works as a postdoctoral scientist at the INIMS and enrols in the Clinician-Scientist in Multiple Sclerosis research programme. Her research will focus on cell-type specific susceptibility for inflammation-induced neurodegeneration using the retina as a model system with good in vivo accessibility.
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