Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology

The Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroinflammation Center at UCSF

UCSF Pediatric Neuro-Immunology and Multiple Sclerosis Program

UCSF Center for Encephalitis & Meningitis

News

Dr. Jill Hollenbach received the prestigious American Society for Histocompatability and Immunogenetics 2025 Bernard Amos Distinguished Scientist Award. 

Dr. Stephen Hauser has won the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences. Read more here.

Dr. Michael Wilson has been elected as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. 

Dr. Michael Wlson

Michael Wilson, MD has won the Trailblazer Prize for Clinician-Scientists from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.

 

Division of Neuroimmunology and Glial Biology Leadership

Ari J. Green, MD, MCR - Division Chief
Jonah Chan, PhD - Vice Chief for Research
Jeffrey Gelfand, MD - Vice Chief for Clinical Services
Joanne Guo, MD - Vice Chief for Education 

Directors

Riley Bove, MD, MSc - Director, BRIDGE
Bruce Cree, MD, PhD, MCR - Director of Clinical Research
Emmanuelle Waubant, MD, PhD - Director, Pediatric MS Clinic
Michael Wilson, MD - Director of Meningitis and Encephalitis Program

Faculty

Ahmed Abdelhak, MD
Sergio Baranzini, PhD
Christian Cordano, MD, PhD
Stephen Fancy, PhD, DVM
Josiah Gerdts, MD, PhD
Sasha Gupta, MD
Stephen L. Hauser, MD 
Roland Henry, PhD
Jill Hollenbach, PhD, MPH
Carson Moseley, MD, PhD
Alyssa Nylander, MD, PhD
Jorge Oksenberg, PhD
Nico Papinutto, PhD
Samuel Pleasure, MD, PhD
Joseph Sabatino, MD, PhD
Trent Watkins, PhD
Scott Zamvil, MD, PhD

Incoming Fellows

Gina Chang, MD, MPH
Sumanth Reddy, MD
Olga Manouvakhova, MD
Methma Udawatta, MD

Current Fellows

Leslie Scarffe, MD, PhD
Leah Zuroff, MD
Greer Waldrop, MD, ScM
Martineau Louine, MD

Emeritus Faculty

Douglas Goodin, MD

Research

See our list of individual laboratories in our division to review basic research programs.

Programs Within the Division

  • Innovation Program Remyelination & Repair - Directed by Ari Green, MD, and Jonah Chan, PhD
  • Program for Meningitis & Encephalitis - Directed by Michael Wilson, MD, and Sam Pleasure, MD, PhD
  • ORIGINS - Directed by Stephen L. Hauser, MD, and Bruce Cree, MD, PhD
  • Cellular Therapeutics & Diagnostics - Directed by Sasha Gupta, MD, and Josiah Gerdts, MD, PhD
  • Microbiome Program - Directed by Sergio Baranzini, PhD; Dr. Baranzini also leads the International MS Microbiome Study
  • Clinical Research - Find trials that are open for enrollment
At the Actrims Forum 2020

Members of the Bove Lab presenting data on minimal transfer of rituximab into breastmilk of women with MS, offering a possible treatment option to high-risk women in the postpartum period.

Pictured L-R: Drs. Annika Andersen, Kirsten Krysko, and Alice Edwards.