Professor Jeannette Lechner-Scott

Conjoint Professor and Senior Staff Specialist

Research Programs

Immune Health

Developed a clinical assessment program for trials in multiple sclerosis which allowed standardisation across the whole world

Leading a national study monitoring with biomarkers the course of MS after treatment with immune reconstitution therapy

Investigating the influence of multiple sclerosis and its treatment on pregnancy especially during artificial reproduction programs

Professor Jeannette Lechner-Scott is a senior staff specialist in the Department of Neurology, Newcastle, and a conjoint Professor at the University of Newcastle.

She is the head of the Neuroimmunology clinic at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle and the deputy director of the Immune Health Program in the Hunter Medical Research Program.

Professor Lechner-Scott is on the Board of Directors of MS Plus, a member of MSIF and the chief editor of MSARD.

She is the recipient of the 2023 Ian McDonald Award for Outstanding Research in Multiple Sclerosis.

Her research stretches over various fields (genetics/epigenetics, new MRI technologies, pregnancy, cognition in MS, etc), but always has the person with MS in its centre.

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