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Tobias Derfuss, MD
Tobias Derfuss, MD
      Tobias Derfuss, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Senior Physician in the Departments of Neurology and Biomedicine at University Clinic in Basel, Switzerland. He received his clinical training from the Department of Neurology, Klinikum Grosshadern in Munich, Germany. His research at the Max-Planck Institute for Neurobiology, Department of Neuroimmunology, was focused on the discovery of new autoantigens in multiple sclerosis (MS) and the characterization of immune response against latent herpes viruses. After training in neuromuscular diseases at the Friedrich-Baur Institute and in psychiatry at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, he was appointed head of the out-patient department at University Clinic in Erlangen. His current research focuses on elucidating the role of B cells, the discovery of biomarkers, and analyzing the mode of action of disease-modifying treatments in MS. Dr Derfuss is also involved in clinical trials for newly emerging therapies in MS. He has authored several articles that have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Lancet Neurology, Seminars in Neurology, and The New England Journal of Medicine, amongst others.
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