Lena Kristina Pfeffer studied medicine at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and trained at the University of Zurich (UZH) and at the University College London (UCL). She carried out her MD thesis at the Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, LMU) studying the role of autoantibodies in Multiple Sclerosis. In 2020, she began her residency at the Department of Neurology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). Since November 2021, she works as a postdoctoral scientist at the INIMS and is enrolled in the Clinician Scientist Program of the DFG Research Unit 5068 “Sex differences in immunity“. Her research focuses on sex differences in T-cell-mediated autoimmunity in Multiple Sclerosis and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). Additionally, she is interested in the pathophysiology and treatment of Autoimmune Encephalitis and contributes to the German Network for Research on Autoimmune Encephalitis (GENERATE).
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