Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Inga Koneczny is a group leader at the Division of Neuropathology and Neurochemistry at the Department of Neurology at MedUni Vienna, with a MSc in Molecular Biology from the University of Vienna, Austria, and a PhD in Clinical Neurosciences from the University of Oxford, UK. She is especially enthusiastic for 1. IgG4 autoantibodies, which inspired her to develop a classification system and to found and coordinate an EU consortium dedicated to study how and why these otherwise benign and anti-inflammatory antibodies can be causative of severe autoimmune diseases, 2. Myasthenia gravis, including antibody diagnostics, SNMG, FARAD and of course MuSK MG, which is caused by pathogenic IgG4 autoantibodies (see also 1.), 3. Anti-IgLON5 disease, which is interesting as antibodies of IgG4 subclass (see also 1.) show pathogenicity, but patients also may present with a tauopathy- which is an intriguing combination! Please feel free to contact me in case you have any interest in these research topics :)
* Current work focusses on identifying and characterizing the pathogenic cell population in MuSK Myasthenia gravis * Funded by an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
* Work on immunological aspects on MuSK MG * Funded by an Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)