Senior Consultant | Member Workstream 3

Anne-Katrin Pröbstel, MD, is a workstream leader of the cellular and molecular immunology branch of of the Research Center for Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neuroscience Basel (RC2NB), a Swiss National Science Eccellenza professor at the University of Basel, and a senior consultant neurologist at the University Hospital of Basel. Anne-Katrin studied medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany, Université Paris Diderot, France, and Harvard Medical School Boston, US and obtained her doctoral degree from the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in conjunction with the Institute of Clinical Neuroimmunology in Munich. She pursued her clinical training in Neurology and Immunology at the University of Basel, Switzerland and a postdoctoral fellowship in Neuroimmunology at the University of California, San Francisco. Anne-Katrin is a member of the scientific advisory board of the French Multiple Sclerosis Society and an executive committee member of the International Women in MS (iWiMS) consortium. Further, she serves as an associate editor of Neurology Neuroimmunology and Neuroinflammation and is the chair of the University of Basel Immunology Community (uBICo). Dr. Pröbstel's research aims to decode molecular and cell type-specific pathologies in neuroinflammatory diseases such as MS, MOGAD NMOSD, autoimmuneencephalitis and neurolupus with a focus on B cells and their interaction with microbiota. Her lab integrates a broad spectrum of methods combining human immunology and immune repertoire analysis, single-cell bioinformatics, microbiota sequencing, and experimental (gnotobiotic) mouse model. Her goal is to disentangle pro- and anti-inflammatory B cell phenotypes and their environmental cues to develop novel microbiota and cell-based therapies for neuroinflammatory diseases.