Martina Absinta

Humanitas University
Milan, Italy

Prof. Martina Absinta is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Head of the Experimental Neuropathology Lab at Humanitas University Hospital in Milan, Italy. She is a physician-scientist with clinical and research activities focused on neuroinflammatory diseases of the central nervous system. She has dedicated her research work to studying MRI–human neuropathological correlations in multiple sclerosis and identifying novel imaging biomarkers of chronic inflammation, with a special focus on glia-mediated and leptomeningeal inflammation. Her research has highlighted the clinical relevance of compartmentalized inflammation and chronic active lesions in driving progression in multiple sclerosis and the need of novel treatments with bioactivity within the central nervous system.