Research in the Department of Neuroimmunology is focused on the topics of immune surveillance of the nervous system and the mechanisms of brain inflammation and inflammation-induced tissue damage in the central nervous system.  Basic research deals with T-cell and B-cell mediated autoimmunity of the nervous system, the role of microglia in tissue injury and repair and the mechanisms of inflammatory tissue injury in experimental models of inflammatory brain diseases. More applied research centers on the immunopathogenesis of human inflammatory diseases, such as multiple sclerosis, Guillain Barre Syndrom, paraneoplastic diseases, some forms of epilepsy and infectious diseases. Besides classical inflammatory diseases we are also interested in the role of inflammation in neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease.