TRR 274 International Symposium “Checkpoints of Central Nervous System Recovery“ 2026

On 27 -30th of October 2026 the TRR274 held its international retreat in Göttingen at the beautiful Historic Observatory. We had the pleasure to welcome distinguished experts in the field of immunology, glial biology and neurobiology in the context of our TRR274 theme “checkpoints of CNS recovery”.

Our consortium members as well as our guest speakers came together to present their research and exchange ideas on CNS recovery. Our guest speakers arrived from all over Europe and inlcuded:

Prof. Dr. Catherina Becker – Director of Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD) and of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering (CMCB), TU Dresden, Germany
Prof. Dr. Tobias Derfuss – Head of Clinical Neuroimmunology at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Christian Geis – Chair and Director of the Department of Neurology at Jena University Hospital, Germany
Prof. Dr. Maja Jagodic – Head of Department of Clinical Neuroscience and the Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Prof. Dr. Ragnhildur Thóra Káradóttir – Director of Cambridge Centre for Myelin Repair, University of Cambridge, UK
Dr. Sarah Mundt –  Head of Neuroimmunology at the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Valentin Nägerl – Director of Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, medical University Göttingen, Germany
Dr. Anna Planas – Head of the Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics at Institute for Biomedical Research of Barcelona (IIBB) – University of Barcelona, Spain
Prof. Dr. Bruno Weber – Director of the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Switerzland

We want to thank everyone for joining and making this another special and interesting scientific meeting!