Sonja Hochmeister Depatment of Neurology Medical University Graz Austria Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles Sonja Hochmeister Sonja Hochmeister is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Medical University Graz, Austria, Dept. of Neurology. She is working in the field of neuroimmunology, animal models and histopathology since 2001. After graduating from medical school in Vienna, Austria in 2001, she studied molecular biology and did her PhD thesis from 2003-2006 at the Center for Brain Research, Dept. Neuroimmunology in Vienna (Head and PhD supervisor Prof. Hans Lassmann). Her PhD study focused on mechanisms of brain inflammation and blood brain barrier disturbance. In 2006 she switched to Medical University Graz, Austria and started a further training in clinical neurology, ending with the board certification in Neurology in 2012 and the postdoctoral lecture qualification in 2013. During this training and thereafter she pursued her research career with a focus on histopathology and animal models. Research time spent abroad at Charite Berlin/ Germany and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm/ Sweden helped to intensify the insights and knowledge on animal models. The current main research interest is firstly to provide a reliable animal model mimicking features typical for progressive Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and secondly to use this model to elucidate the mechanisms behind the often seen cognitive decline of late stage MS patients. Testing out compounds believed to be neuroprotective and/or enhance repair processes in this cortical demyelination model is a further long-term aim of her work. Publications Pro-enflamatuar Sitokinlerin İntraserebral Enjeksiyonu ile İndüklenen Yaygın Serebral Kortikal Demiyelinasyonun Sıçan Modeli Muammer Üçal*1, Michaela Tanja Haindl*2, Milena Z. Adzemovic3, Manuel Zeitelhofer4, Ute Schaefer1, Franz Fazekas2, Sonja Hochmeister2 1Research Unit of Experimental Neurotraumatology, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University Graz, 2Department of Neurology, Medical University Graz, 3Centre for Molecular Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 4Division of Vascular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet JoVE 57879 Neuroscience
Pro-enflamatuar Sitokinlerin İntraserebral Enjeksiyonu ile İndüklenen Yaygın Serebral Kortikal Demiyelinasyonun Sıçan Modeli Muammer Üçal*1, Michaela Tanja Haindl*2, Milena Z. Adzemovic3, Manuel Zeitelhofer4, Ute Schaefer1, Franz Fazekas2, Sonja Hochmeister2 1Research Unit of Experimental Neurotraumatology, Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University Graz, 2Department of Neurology, Medical University Graz, 3Centre for Molecular Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 4Division of Vascular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet JoVE 57879 Neuroscience