Appointment Susanne Kooistra as Assistant Professor

MS researcher Susanne Kooistra has been appointed as Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of Cells and Systems of the UMCG (as of July 1^st).

Susanne is the recipient of an MS Fellowship from the MS Research Foundation and she studies the role of microglial cells in MS. These immune cells of the central nervous system play an important role in the onset and progression of MS. Microglia have different functions and can play both a positive and negative role in the MS disease process.

A better understanding of the different functions and roles of these interesting cells in relation to MS will lead to a better understanding of the disease process and possibly offer new leads for treatments of MS.