Congratulations to Dr Pascal Benkert, Head of SMSC datacenter, and Stephanie Meier, candPhD, both members of Prof Jens Kuhle’s research group at Neurology/RC2NB who have been honored with the Ellermann Prize 2022 by the Mogens und Wilhelm Ellermann-Stiftung.
Their work published in Lancet Neurology demonstrated how concentrations of serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL) are a sensitive measure of disease activity in multiple sclerosis (MS). By creating a large reference database from control persons they were able to show that patients with increased levels of this structural neuronal protein in blood experience more disease activity in the next year based on two large cohorts of patients followed in the Swedish MS Registry and the Swiss MS Cohort Study. sNfL has meanwhile increasingly entered clinical care of MS patients.
