The UNIC Human Biology Society invites you to the academic talk titled “Insights into molecular mechanisms of multiple sclerosis using models of neuroinflammation”, which will take place on 22 February 2017, at 12:00 – 13:00, UNESCO Amphitheatre. 

Dr. Kleopas Kleopa, Senior Consultant Neurologist and Professor at Cyprus School of Molecular Medicine, Head of Neurology Clinic E and Neuroscience Lab at Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, will present the seminar. 

Dr Kleopas Kleopa is currently Head of Neurology Clinic E and Neuroscience Lab at CING. He has completed his medical studies at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany in 1987-1993, and obtained his doctoral degree from the same University in 1994 with magna cum laude. He completed his residency in Neurology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA in 1999. He then completed a fellowship in neuromuscular disorders and electromyography at the University of Pennsylvania in 2001,and was appointed as clinical instructor in Neurology at the Faculty of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

He engaged in a postdoctoral research project in 2000 on the molecular mechanisms of peripheral and central nervous system involvement in inherited neuropathies, and continued his research after his recruitment at the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics in 2002, where he was appointed Senior Consultant Neurologist. He established neurology and EMG clinics as well as an externally funded neuroscience lab. He became head of Neurology clinic E and Neuroscience Lab in 2007.

Prof. Kleopa’s research focuses on translational and basic neuroscience. His team has generated and studied cellular and animal models of inherited and acquired neuropathies, demyelinating disorders and leukodystrophies. These include transgenic models of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease as well as experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis models of multiple sclerosis.

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