Manuel A. Friese

Professor of Neurology
Director
Institute of Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis (INIMS)
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
Eppendorf | Germany

Manuel Friese studied medicine at the Universities of Hamburg, Oxford, and University College London, receiving his MD in 2001. He completed his neurology training at the Universities of Tübingen and Hamburg, Germany. After completing his postdoctoral training at the University of Oxford, UK, from 2004 to 2008, he established his laboratory as an Emmy Noether research fellow of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). Since 2013, he has been a consultant neurologist and Professor of Neurology at the UKE, and since 2014, he has served as the Director of the Institute of Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis (INIMS). His laboratory focuses on the inflammatory and neurodegenerative aspects of neuroimmunological and neuroinfectious diseases.