News
Work of Lisa Gerdes and colleagues named by the Süddeutsche Zeitung as 2024 breakthrough
Multiple Sclerosis Price of the Eva and Helmer Lehmann Foundation for Arek Kendirli

January 2025: The Süddeutsche Zeitung selects work by Lisa Gerdes and colleagues as a breakthrough discovery for 2024.
November 2024 – Arek Kendirli (Kerschensteiner Lab) received the Multiple Sclerosis price of the Eva and Helmer Lehmann Foundation awarded by the German Neurological Society and the competence Network Multiple Sclerosis for...
Publications
LMU researchers demonstrate that certain immune cells already play an important role in the early stages of multiple sclerosis
Fluorogenic chemical probes for wash-free imaging of cell membrane damage in ferroptosis, necrosis and axon injury

September 2024 – Here the Gerdes lab together with the Beltran lab analyzed CD8 T cells from the blood and cerebrospinal fluid of monozygotic twins, where one twin had MS and the other showed no signs or subclinical signs of neuroinflammation (SCNI). The Study demonstrates that CD8 T ...
April 2024 – Membrane damage is key step in the pathological cascade that leads to neuronal death or axon degeneration. Here, the Kerschensteiner lab worked together with a research team headed by Oliver Thorn-Seshold at the LMU Department of Pharmacy to develop new modular ....