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  • 2026 - Research.com Immunology in Austria Leader Award
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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Immunology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Immunology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Immunology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Medicine in Austria Leader Award
  • 2010 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Pathology and Forensic Medicine

Overview

Hans Lassmann is affiliated with the Medical University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Medicine and Neuroscience, with significant contributions to subfields such as Neurology, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Immunology, Oncology, and Molecular Biology. The scope of their work extensively covers topics including Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies, Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders, Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms, Polyomavirus and related diseases, Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research, and Immunotherapy and Immune Responses.

The scientist has a notable record of publications in a variety of high-impact journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Annals of Neurology
  • Acta Neuropathologica
  • Brain
  • Journal of Neuroinflammation
  • Brain Pathology

Some of the recent papers led or co-authored by Lassmann include:

  • Myelin-oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease, 2021, The Lancet Neurology
  • The pathology of central nervous system inflammatory demyelinating disease accompanying myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein autoantibody, 2020, Acta Neuropathologica
  • Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease: an immunopathological study, 2020, Brain
  • Role of B Cells in Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 2020, Annals of Neurology
  • Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis, 2021, Neurology

Throughout their career, they have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Thomas Berger
  • Simon Hametner
  • Romana Höftberger
  • Paulus Rommer
  • Claudia F. Lucchinetti

Lassmann received recognition from the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2010 in the category of Pathology and Forensic Medicine.

Best Publications

  • Heterogeneity of multiple sclerosis lesions: implications for the pathogenesis of demyelination.

    Claudia Lucchinetti;Wolfgang Brück;Joseph Parisi;Bernd Scheithauer

  • The TREM2-APOE Pathway Drives the Transcriptional Phenotype of Dysfunctional Microglia in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    Susanne Krasemann;Susanne Krasemann;Charlotte Madore;Ron Cialic;Caroline Baufeld

  • Cortical demyelination and diffuse white matter injury in multiple sclerosis

    Alexandra Kutzelnigg;Claudia F. Lucchinetti;Christine Stadelmann;Wolfgang Brück

  • The relation between inflammation and neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis brains

    Josa M. Frischer;Stephan Bramow;Assunta Dal-Bianco;Claudia F. Lucchinetti

  • The immunopathology of multiple sclerosis: An overview

    Hans Lassmann;Wolfgang Brück;Claudia F. Lucchinetti

  • A role for humoral mechanisms in the pathogenesis of Devic’s neuromyelitis optica

    Claudia F. Lucchinetti;Raul N. Mandler;Dorian McGavern;Wolfgang Bruck

  • Pathological mechanisms in progressive multiple sclerosis

    Don H Mahad;Bruce D Trapp;Hans Lassmann

  • Clonal Expansions of Cd8+ T Cells Dominate the T Cell Infiltrate in Active Multiple Sclerosis Lesions as Shown by Micromanipulation and Single Cell Polymerase Chain Reaction

    Holger Babbe;Axel Roers;Ari Waisman;Hans Lassmann

  • Activated Human T Cells, B Cells, and Monocytes Produce Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor In Vitro and in Inflammatory Brain Lesions: A Neuroprotective Role of Inflammation?

    Martin Kerschensteiner;Eike Gallmeier;Lüder Behrens;Vivian Vargas Leal

  • Understanding pathogenesis and therapy of multiple sclerosis via animal models: 70 years of merits and culprits in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis research.

    Ralf Gold;Christopher Linington;Hans Lassmann

  • Inflammatory Cortical Demyelination in Early Multiple Sclerosis

    Claudia F. Lucchinetti;Bogdan F.G. Popescu;Reem F. Bunyan;Natalia M. Moll

  • Progressive multiple sclerosis: pathology and pathogenesis

    Hans Lassmann;Jack van Horssen;Don Mahad

  • Multiple sclerosis and chronic autoimmune encephalomyelitis: a comparative quantitative study of axonal injury in active, inactive, and remyelinated lesions.

    Barbara Kornek;Maria K. Storch;Maria K. Storch;Robert Weissert;Erik Wallstroem

  • Oligodendrocytes: biology and pathology

    Monika Bradl;Hans Lassmann

  • Differentiation between cellular apoptosis and necrosis by the combined use of in situ tailing and nick translation techniques.

    R Gold;M Schmied;G Giegerich;H Breitschopf

  • Accumulation of abnormally phosphorylated τ precedes the formation of neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease

    C. Bancher;C. Brunner;H. Lassmann;H. Budka

  • Distinct Patterns of Multiple Sclerosis Pathology Indicates Heterogeneity in Pathogenesis

    Claudia F. Lucchinetti;Wolfgang Brück;Moses Rodriguez;Hans Lassmann

  • Cellular immune reactivity within the CNS

    H. Wekerle;C. Linington;H. Lassmann;R. Meyermann

  • Remyelination is extensive in a subset of multiple sclerosis patients

    Peter Patrikios;Christine Stadelmann;Alexandra Kutzelnigg;Helmut Rauschka

  • Pattern-specific loss of aquaporin-4 immunoreactivity distinguishes neuromyelitis optica from multiple sclerosis

    Shanu F. Roemer;Joseph E. Parisi;Vanda A. Lennon;Eduardo E. Benarroch

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Bauer
Jan Bauer Medical University of Vienna
Christopher Linington
Christopher Linington University of Glasgow
Hartmut Wekerle
Hartmut Wekerle Max Planck Society
Wolfgang Brück
Wolfgang Brück University of Göttingen
Christine Stadelmann
Christine Stadelmann University of Göttingen
Edgar Meinl
Edgar Meinl Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Tomas Olsson
Tomas Olsson Karolinska Institute
Kazuo Fujihara
Kazuo Fujihara Fukushima Medical University
Herbert Budka
Herbert Budka Medical University of Vienna

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