Post by Austrian Multiple Sclerosis Cohort

Today marks the official kick-off of the Austrian MS Cohort (AMSC) 🚀 — an important milestone for multiple sclerosis research in Austria 🇦🇹 I would like to sincerely thank all contributing centers, their Principal Investigators, and their teams for their collaborative spirit and their tremendous efforts in helping unify MS data across Austria 🤝📊 #HaraldHegen, Medical University of Innsbruck, Vice-President of the AMSC Steering Committee #MichaelKhalil, Medical University of Graz, 2nd Vice-President of the AMSC Steering Committee #PeterWipfler, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg #GerhardTraxler, Kepler University Linz #ChristianeGradl, University Clinic St. Pölten #MichaelGuger, Pyhrn-Eisenwurzen Hospital Steyr #ThomasHofer, Barmherzige Brüder Hospital Linz #AlexandraSteindlGmeiner, Barmherzige Brüder Hospital Eisenstadt #ClemensCijan, Klinikum Klagenfurt #PhilippWerner, Klinikum Feldkirch The Austrian MS Cohort is built to strengthen collaboration and enable high-quality, nationwide MS research. More details about the set-up of the cohort, as well as information on how to submit project applications, can be found on our homepage: www.amsc.at 🌐 I am also very pleased to announce the first congress of the Austrian Consortium, #MSConnectAustria, which will take place on November 19–20, 2026, in Vienna 📅 We warmly encourage everyone interested to register here: https://lnkd.in/dZ2R3qFr The AMSC is powered by the Austrian MS Innovation Alliance (AMSIA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing MS research in Austria 💙❤️: amsc.at/amsia/ On a personal note, I am deeply grateful and very proud to finally see the AMSC officially get off the ground 🙏 This has taken enormous effort by unbelievably special and dedicated people. It's impossible to name them all, but I would still like to highlight my dear colleagues and friends #HaraldHegen and #MichaelKhalil, who serve as my Vice-Presidents in the AMSC Steering Committee and the AMSIA Board, but also #MarkusPonleitner and #FabianFöttinger, our database coordinators; #KatrinEgger from the Legal Department of the Medical University of Vienna, who helped me manage and survive countless contracts; and #HelkePernitz and #ThomasWrba from the ITSC, who made the IT side of this project possible 💻 My sincere thanks also go to all our collaborators across Austria. Thank you all for making this possible. This is just the beginning ✨🚀 #AustrianMSCohort #MSResearch #MultipleSclerosis #Austria #ClinicalResearch #Collaboration #Neurology #MSConnectAustria #AMSIA