Prof Jens Kuhle is Head of the Multiple Sclerosis Centre and Neuroimmunology Unit at the University Hospital Basel. He is deputy CEO of the Research Center for Clinical Neuroimmunology and Neuroscience Basel (RC2NB) and Principal Investigator of the Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Cohort Study (SMSC). He obtained his MD from the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen, Germany and went on to specialise in neurology and neuroimmunology at Queen Mary University London and the University Hospital Basel. His main research interests include body fluid biomarkers and observational cohort studies in MS.