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Christine Stadelmann(-Nessler) is a professor of neuropathology at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany, and director of the Institute of Neuropathology. She received her M.D. from Vienna Medical School, Austria, and underwent postgraduate training in the labs of Hans Lassmann and Wolfgang Brück, focussing on neuronal cell death and inflammation in neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative diseases. She is an expert on the neuropathological differential diagnosis of inflammatory CNS diseases, and engages in brain banking activities. Her lab investigates the pathophysiology of myelin and neuroaxonal damage in demyelinating diseases combing work on human tissue with in vivo experimental models. Her lab specializes in characterizing the disease mechanisms of progressive multiple sclerosis focussing on the innate immune system, in particular microglia cells. Other research programs address the cellular basis of remyelination. Recently, her lab could demonstrate infection of and damage to the olfactory epithelium in Covid19.