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Prof Tomas Kalincik

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Prof Tomas Kalincik

Group Leader, Head of Neuroimmunology & MS at RMH

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a little bit about me

I am the Head of the CORe Unit at the University of Melbourne, as well as the Head of the Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroimmunology Service at The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

Together with the CORe team, I specialise in analytics of observational data in neurology. I am an active participant in the global MSBase collaboration, undertaking a role in the MSBase Scientific Leadership Group.

My research interests revolve around disease outcomes in Multiple Sclerosis and Neuromyelitis Optica. These comprise comparative treatment effectiveness, management of treatment failure, individual treatment response, personalised therapy, prognostics, epidemiology and utility of volumetric MRI.

Publications

Real-world effectiveness of horizontal switching between disease-modifying therapies in multiple sclerosis: a retrospective analysis of the MSBase Registry
Enrique Gomez-Figueroa, Patricia Orozco-Puga, Cynthia Patricia Corona-Vázquez, Carlos Moreno-Bernardino, Graciela Elizabeth De la Mora-Landín, Amado Jiménez-Ruiz, Christian García-Estrada, Lizeth Zertuche-Ortuño, Sergio Saldívar-Dávila, Roberto Rodríguez-Rivas, Lisette Bazán-Rodríguez, José Flores-Rivera, Tomas Kalincik, Katherine Buzzard, Samia Khoury, Pierre Duquette, Matteo Foschi, Andrea Surcinelli, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Riadh Gouider, Saloua Mrabet, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Helmut Butzkueven, Raed Alroughani, Izanne Roos, Francesco Patti, Bassem Yamout, François Grand'Maison, Daniele Spitaleri, Pamela McCombe, José Luis Sanchez-Menoyo, Serkan Ozakbas, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Nevin John, Elisabetta Cartechini, Anneke Van der Walt, Justin Garber, Emmanuelle Lapointe, Aysun Soysal, Eduardo Aguera-Morales, Joana Guimarães, José Luis Ruiz-Sandoval
Ther Adv Neurol Disord. 2025 Dec 23;18:17562864251399595. doi: 10.1177/17562864251399595. eCollection 2025.

Study protocol for a multicentre, randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, multi-arm, multi-stage, trial of SpironolacTone and famciclOovir in the treatment of Progressive Multiple Sclerosis to prevent disability progression: the STOP-MS trial
Kayla Ward, Vivien Li, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Lesley-Ann Hall, Katherine Buzzard, Kaylene Young, Fiona Mckay, Vanessa Vigar, Sabrina Oishi, Lidia Madrid San Martin, Belinda Kaskow, Grant Parnell, Julie A Campbell, Jing Sun, Corey Smith, Vilija Jokubaitis, Tomas Kalincik, David Tscharke, Andrew Potter, Erin Brady, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Lawrence Steinman, Mahesh Parmar, Jeremy Chataway, Todd Hardy, William M Carroll, Michael H Barnett, Bruce V Taylor, Simon A Broadley, Australian Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trials Consortium
BMJ Neurol Open. 2025 Dec 23;7(2):e001313. doi: 10.1136/bmjno-2025-001313. eCollection 2025.

Real-world effectiveness of ocrelizumab in relapsing multiple sclerosis: An MSBase registry sub-study
Helmut Butzkueven, Pamela Farr, Serkan Ozakbas, Cavit Boz, Tomas Kalincik, Lisa Taylor, Anneke Van Der Walt, Raed Alroughani, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Guy Laureys, Murat Terzi, Vincent Van Pesch, Francois Grand-Maison, Michael Barnett, Allan Kermode, Jose Luis Sanchez Menoyo, Juan Rojas, Barbara Willekens, Matteo Foschi, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Eli Skromne, Petra Dirks, Erwan Muros-Le Rouzic, Tim Spelman
Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2025 Nov 25;106:106885. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2025.106885. Online ahead of print.

Managing reactivation of multiple sclerosis during treatment with natalizumab
Nathaniel Lizak, Sifat Sharmin, Dana Horáková, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Sara Eichau, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Oliver Gerlach, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Pierre Duquette, Raed Alroughani, Francesco Patti, Francois Grand'Maison, Maria José Sá, Eduardo Aguera-Morales, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Pierre Grammond, Jens Kuhle, Bassem Yamout, Samia J Khoury, Serkan Ozakbas, Tunde Csepany, Nevin John, Guy Laureys, Murat Terzi, Maria Pia Amato, Cavit Boz, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Elisabetta Cartechini, Riadh Gouider, Saloua Mrabet, Izanne Roos, Tomas Kalincik
Mult Scler. 2026 Jan;32(1):121-133. doi: 10.1177/13524585251398682. Epub 2025 Dec 19.

Biomarkers of neuroaxonal and astrocytic pathology in autoimmune encephalitis
Robb Wesselingh, Sarah Griffith, Katherine Ko, Nabil Seery, Christina Kazzi, William T O'Brien, Tiffany Rushen, Amy Halliday, Liora Ter Horst, Mirasol Forcadela, Tracie Tan, Genevieve Skinner, Hannah Ford, Cassie Nesbitt, Katherine Buzzard, Andrew Duncan, Wendyl D'Souza, Stuart McDonald, Anneke Van Der Walt, Amy Brodtmann, Ernest G Butler, Tomas Kalincik, Udaya Seneviratne, Richard Macdonell, Yi Chao Foong, Jennifer MacIntyre, Stefan Blum, David Gillis, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Charles Malpas, Stephen W Reddel, Todd A Hardy, Terence J O'Brien, Paul Sanfilippo, Helmut Butzkueven, Mastura Monif, Australian Autoimmune Encephalitis Consortium
Brain Behav Immun. 2025 Dec 5;132:106206. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2025.106206. Online ahead of print.

Big multiple sclerosis data network: novel modelling approaches for real-world data analysis
M Trojano, P Iaffaldano, M Copetti, J Drahota, L Forsberg, E F Mouresan, L Pontieri, T Spelman, N Toschi, H Butzkueven, A Glaser, J Hillert, D Horakova, M Magyari, S Vukusic, G Lucisano, T Kalincik
J Neurol. 2025 Nov 8;272(12):754. doi: 10.1007/s00415-025-13439-9.

Moderate-high efficacy disease-modifying therapies reduce relapse risk in late-onset multiple sclerosis
Yi Chao Foong, Daniel Merlo, Melissa Gresle, Katherine Buzzard, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Tomas Kalincik, Izanne Roos, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Alessandra Lugaresi, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Serkan Ozakbas, Andrea Surcinelli, Matteo Foschi, Cavit Boz, Samia Joseph Khoury, Bassem Yamout, Guy Laureys, Yolanda Blanco, Olga Skibina, Jens Kuhle, Nevin John, Raed Alroughani, Julie Prevost, Vincent Van Pesch, Valentina Tomassini, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Murat Terzi, Vahid Shaygannejad, Radek Ampapa, Orla Gray, Masoud Etemadifar, Joana Guimarães, Pamela A McCombe, Oliver Gerlach, Claudio Solaro, Helmut Butzkueven, Chao Zhu, Anneke van der Walt, MSBase Study Group
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2025 Dec 12;97(1):50-58. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2025-336513.

Subjective neuropsychological deficits in autoimmune encephalitis: Patient-informant discrepancies and cognitive test outcomes
Katherine Y Ko, Nabil Seery, Christina Kazzi, Sarah Griffith, Robb Wesselingh, Tiffany Rushen, Tracie H Tan, Lauren Melitsis, Catherine Meade, Marie F O'Shea, Mirasol Forcadela, Andrew Duncan, Amy Halliday, Hannah Ford, Ernest G Butler, Anneke Van Der Walt, Tomas Kalincik, Wendyl D'Souza, Udaya Seneviratne, Katherine Buzzard, Richard Macdonell, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Jayashri Kulkarni, Stephen W Reddel, Todd A Hardy, Helmut Butzkueven, Terence J O'Brien, Rubina Alpitsis, Charles B Malpas, Mastura Monif, Australian Autoimmune Encephalitis Consortium
J Neurol Sci. 2025 Nov 15;478:123709. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2025.123709. Epub 2025 Oct 2.

Menopause Impact on Multiple Sclerosis Disability Progression
Francesca Bridge, Paul G Sanfilippo, Chao Zhu, Olga Skibina, Ai-Lan Nguyen, Tomas Kalincik, Katherine Buzzard, Bruce V Taylor, Jennifer MacIntyre, Lesley-Ann Hall, Mark Slee, Richard Macdonell, Vicki Maltby, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Pamela McCombe, Helmut Butzkueven, Anneke van der Walt, Vilija G Jokubaitis
JAMA Neurol. 2025 Dec 1;82(12):1219-1226. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2025.3538.

Subjective psychiatric symptoms in post-acute autoimmune encephalitis: findings from the Australian autoimmune encephalitis consortium
Katherine Y Ko, Christina Kazzi, Nabil Seery, Sarah Griffith, Robb Wesselingh, Tiffany Rushen, Tracie H Tan, Hannah Ford, Catherine Meade, Marie F O'Shea, Laurie McLaughlin, Genevieve Skinner, Mirasol Forcadela, Amy Halliday, Andrew Duncan, Ernest G Butler, Anneke Van Der Walt, Tomas Kalincik, Wendyl D'Souza, Udaya Seneviratne, Katherine Buzzard, Richard Macdonell, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Stefan Blum, Jayashri Kulkarni, Stephen W Reddel, Todd A Hardy, Helmut Butzkueven, Terence J O'Brien, Rubina Alpitsis, Charles B Malpas, Mastura Monif, Australian Autoimmune Encephalitis Consortium
J Neurol. 2025 Sep 29;272(10):665. doi: 10.1007/s00415-025-13353-0.

Disease course after pregnancy in women with progressive multiple sclerosis symptoms
Jessica Shipley, Heidi N Beadnall, Paul G Sanfilippo, Dana Horakova, Cavit Boz, Alexandre Prat, Serkan Ozakbas, Tomas Kalincik, Izanne Roos, Ayse Altintas, Sara Eichau, Olga Skibina, Raed Alroughani, Francesco Patti, Masoud Etemadifar, Alessandra Lugaresi, Valentina Tomassini, Helmut Butzkueven, Anneke van der Walt, Vilija G Jokubaitis
Mult Scler. 2025 Oct;31(12):1439-1451. doi: 10.1177/13524585251368248. Epub 2025 Sep 20.

Pregnancy-Related Disease Outcomes in Women With Moderate to Severe Multiple Sclerosis Disability
Jessica Shipley, Heidi N Beadnall, Paul G Sanfilippo, Wei Zhen Yeh, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Pavel Hradilek, Tomas Kalincik, Izanne Roos, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Zuzana Rous, Zbysek Pavelek, Oliver H H Gerlach, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Raed Alroughani, Serkan Ozakbas, Marek Peterka, Katherine Buzzard, Olga G Skibina, Davide Maimone, Matteo Foschi, Andrea Surcinelli, Rana Karabudak, Daniele L A Spitaleri, Alessandra Lugaresi, Valentina Tomassini, Riadh Gouider, Saloua Mrabet, Beatriz Romero Ferrando, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Pavel Štourac, Joana Guimarães, Nevin A John, Richard A L Macdonell, Jose E Meca-Lallana, Helmut Butzkueven, Anneke van der Walt, Vilija G Jokubaitis, MSBase Investigator Group
JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Sep 2;8(9):e2531581. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.31581.

Persistent progression independent of relapse activity in multiple sclerosis
Chao Zhu, Zhen Zhou, Tomas Kalincik, Izanne Roos, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Raed Alroughani, Jens Kuhle, Marc Girard, Pierre Grammond, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Oliver Gerlach, Nevin John, Pamela McCombe, Richard Macdonell, Vincent van Pesch, Guy Laureys, Julie Prevost, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Tamara Castillo-Triviño, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Yolanda Blanco, Jose E Meca-Lallana, Alessandra Lugaresi, Valentina Tomassini, Elisabetta Cartechini, Maria Pia Amato, Daniele Spitaleri, Francesco Patti, Davide Maimone, Matteo Foschi, Andrea Surcinelli, Emanuele D'Amico, Bassem Yamout, Samia J Khoury, Maria Jose Sa, Cavit Boz, Serkan Ozakbas, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Daniel Merlo, Mastura Monif, Vilija G Jokubaitis, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven
Brain Commun. 2025 Aug 21;7(5):fcaf306. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcaf306. eCollection 2025.

Haematopoietic stem cell transplant versus immune-reconstitution therapy in relapsing multiple sclerosis
Tomas Kalincik, Sifat Sharmin, Izanne Roos, Mark S Freedman, Harold Atkins, Jennifer Massey, Ian Sutton, Barbara Withers, Joachim Burman, Øivind Torkildsen, Lars Bø, Anne Kristine Lehmann, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Eva Krasulova, Marek Trneny, Tomas Kozak, Richard Macdonell, J William L Brown, Alasdair Coles, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Bart Van Wijmeersch, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Michael Barnett, Guy Laureys, Barbara Willekens, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Maria Di Gregorio, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Serkan Ozakbas, Jose E Meca-Lallana, Raed Alroughani, Julie Prevost, Matteo Foschi, Andrea Surcinelli, Stefano Neri, Sara Eichau, Pamela McCombe, Nevin John, Simón Cárdenas-Robledo, Jiwon Oh, Jose Luis Sanchez-Menoyo, Francesco Patti, Oliver Gerlach, Yolanda Blanco, Pierre Grammond, Basil Sharrack, John A Snowden
Brain. 2025 Aug 4:awaf286. doi: 10.1093/brain/awaf286. Online ahead of print.

Cognitive impairment in hematology patients planned for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy
Valeriya Kuznetsova, Hannah Rosenfeld, Carmela Sales, Sam van der Linde, Izanne Roos, Stefanie Roberts, Fiore D'Aprano, Samantha M Loi, Mark Dowling, Michael Dickinson, Tomas Kalincik, Simon J Harrison, Charles B Malpas, Mary Ann Anderson
Expert Rev Hematol. 2025 Nov;18(11):987-997. doi: 10.1080/17474086.2025.2542867. Epub 2025 Aug 8.

A single nucleotide polymorphism in the MerTK gene is associated with increased radiological disease activity in patients with multiple sclerosis on natalizumab therapy
Melissa Minhui Chu, Vivien Li, Tomas Kalincik, Elaine Lui, Ming-Rui Seet, Stacey Jackson, Trevor Kilpatrick
Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2025 Oct;102:106635. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2025.106635. Epub 2025 Jul 21.

Relationship between brain atrophy and disability in a multi-site multiple sclerosis registry
Ai-Lan Nguyen, Dana Horakova, Eva H Havrdova, Michael Barnett, Maria Pia Sormani, Nicola De Stefano, Marco Battaglini, Manuela Vaneckova, Elaine Lui, Frank Gaillard, Patricia M Desmond, Hayden Prime, Mineesh Datta, Anneke van der Walt, Vilija G Jokubaitis, Femke Podevyn, Robert Zivadinov, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Marie B D'hooghe, Guy Nagels, Vincent Van Pesch, Guy Laureys, Liesbeth Van Hijfte, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Francesco Patti, Edgardo Cristiano, Juan I Rojas, Diana M Sima, Wim Van Hecke, Tomas Kalincik, Helmut Butzkueven
BMJ Neurol Open. 2025 Jul 22;7(2):e001126. doi: 10.1136/bmjno-2025-001126. eCollection 2025.

Corticosteroid treatment of multiple sclerosis relapses is associated with lower disability worsening over 5 years
Jodie I Roberts, Sifat Sharmin, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Serkan Ozakbas, Alessandra Lugaresi, Valentina Tomassini, Raed Alroughani, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Cavit Boz, Recai Turkoglu, Davide Maimone, Bassem Yamout, Samia Joseph Khoury, Daniele Spitaleri, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Marc Girard, Pierre Duquette, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Radek Ampapa, Matteo Foschi, Andrea Surcinelli, Francesco Patti, Vincent Van Pesch, Cristina Ramo-Tello, José Luis Sánchez-Menoyo, Ayse Altintas, Pierre Grammond, Elisabetta Cartechini, Tunde Csepany, Guy Laureys, Barbara Willekens, Izanne Roos, Tomas Kalincik, MSBase Study Group
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2025 Nov 13;96(12):1185-1193. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2025-336343.

Personalized federated learning for predicting disability progression in multiple sclerosis using real-world routine clinical data
Ashkan Pirmani, Edward De Brouwer, Ádám Arany, Martijn Oldenhof, Antoine Passemiers, Axel Faes, Tomas Kalincik, Serkan Ozakbas, Riadh Gouider, Barbara Willekens, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Francesco Patti, Alexandre Prat, Alessandra Lugaresi, Valentina Tomassini, Pierre Grammond, Elisabetta Cartechini, Izanne Roos, Cavit Boz, Raed Alroughani, Maria Pia Amato, Katherine Buzzard, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Joana Guimarães, Claudio Solaro, Oliver Gerlach, Aysun Soysal, Jens Kuhle, Jose Luis Sanchez-Menoyo, Daniele Spitaleri, Tunde Csepany, Bart Van Wijmeersch, Radek Ampapa, Julie Prevost, Samia J Khoury, Vincent Van Pesch, Nevin John, Davide Maimone, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Guy Laureys, Pamela McCombe, Yolanda Blanco, Ayse Altintas, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Justin Garber, Anneke Van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Koen de Gans, Csilla Rozsa, Bruce Taylor, Talal Al-Harbi, Attila Sas, Cecilia Rajda, Orla Gray, Danny Decoo, William M Carroll, Allan G Kermode, Marzena Fabis-Pedrini, Deborah Mason, Angel Perez-Sempere, Mihaela Simu, Neil Shuey, Bhim Singhal, Marija Cauchi, Todd A Hardy, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Patrice Lalive, Carmen-Adella Sirbu, Stella Hughes, Tamara Castillo Trivino, Liesbet M Peeters, Yves Moreau
NPJ Digit Med. 2025 Jul 24;8(1):478. doi: 10.1038/s41746-025-01788-8.

COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters in People With Multiple Sclerosis: Improved SARS-CoV-2 Cross-Variant Antibody Response and Prediction of Protection
Avani Yeola, Samuel Houston, Anupriya Aggarwal, Rashmi Gamage, Vicki E Maltby, Marzena J Fabis-Pedrini, Linh Le-Kavanagh, Vera Merheb, Kristy Nguyen, Fiona X Z Lee, Susan Walters, Marinda Taha, Annmaree O'Connell, Vilija G Jokubaitis, Angie Roldan, Mastura Monif, Helmut Butzkueven, Sandeep Sampangi, Louise Rath, Katherine Fazzolari, Todd A Hardy, Heidi N Beadnall, Michael H Barnett, Allan G Kermode, Christopher Dwyer, Tomas Kalincik, Simon A Broadley, Stuart G Turville, Stephen W Reddel, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Anneke Van Der Walt, Fabienne Brilot
Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2025 Sep;12(5):e200443. doi: 10.1212/NXI.0000000000200443. Epub 2025 Jul 22.

Four years on: Pregnancy and birth outcomes reported in the MSBase pregnancy, neonatal outcomes, and Women's Health Registry (2020-2024)
Vilija G Jokubaitis, Raed Alroughani, Ayse Altintas, Sara Eichau, Stella Hughes, Barbara Willekens, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Serkan Ozakbas, Cavit Boz, Mario Habek, Tomas Kalincik, Izanne Roos, Masoud Etemadifar, Marek Peterka, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Jose E Meca-Lallana, Zuzana Rous, Jana Houskova, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Radek Ampapa, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Nevin A John, Allan G Kermode, Marzena J Fabis-Pedrini, Matteo Foschi, Andrea Surcinelli, Yolanda Blanco, Seyed Mohammad Baghbanian, Oliver Gerlach, Richard Macdonell, Zbysek Pavelek, Pavel Stourac, Pamela McCombe, Guy Laureys, Helmut Butzkueven, Anneke van der Walt, Orla Gray, MSBase Study Investigators
Mult Scler. 2025 Aug;31(9):1088-1101. doi: 10.1177/13524585251349125. Epub 2025 Jul 7.

Acute and Long-Term Immune-Treatment Strategies in Anti-LGI1 Antibody-Mediated Encephalitis: A Multicenter Cohort Study
Nabil Seery, Robb Wesselingh, Paul Beech, Laurie M McLaughlin, Tiffany Rushen, Amy J Halliday, Liora Ter Horst, Sarah P Griffith, Mirasol Forcadela, Tracie H Tan, Christina Kazzi, Cassie Nesbitt, James Broadley, Katherine Buzzard, Andrew J Duncan, Wendyl Jude D'Souza, Yang David Tran, Anneke Van Der Walt, Genevieve Skinner, Bruce V Taylor, Andrew Swayne, Amy Brodtmann, David Gillis, Ernest Gerard Butler, Tomas Kalincik, Udaya K Seneviratne, Richard A Macdonell, Stefan Blum, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Charles B Malpas, Stephen William Reddel, Todd A Hardy, Terence J O'Brien, Paul G Sanfilippo, Helmut Butzkueven, Mastura Monif, Australian Autoimmune Encephalitis Consortium
Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2025 Jul;12(4):e200412. doi: 10.1212/NXI.0000000000200412. Epub 2025 Jun 19.

Rituximab Use for Relapse Prevention in Anti-NMDAR Antibody-Mediated Encephalitis: A Multicenter Cohort Study
Nabil Seery, Robb Wesselingh, Paul Beech, Laurie McLaughlin, Tiffany Rushen, Amy J Halliday, Liora Ter Horst, Sarah P Griffith, Mirasol Forcadela, Tracie H Tan, Christina Kazzi, Cassie Nesbitt, James Broadley, Katherine Buzzard, Andrew Duncan, Wendyl J D'Souza, Yang Tran, Anneke Van Der Walt, Genevieve Skinner, Bruce V Taylor, Andrew Swayne, Amy Brodtmann, David Gillis, Ernest Gerard Butler, Tomas Kalincik, Udaya K Seneviratne, Richard A Macdonell, Stefan Blum, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Charles B Malpas, Stephen W Reddel, Todd A Hardy, Terence J O'Brien, Paul G Sanfilippo, Helmut Butzkueven, Mastura Monif, Australian Autoimmune Encephalitis Consortium
Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2025 Jul;12(4):e200395. doi: 10.1212/NXI.0000000000200395. Epub 2025 May 30.

The topography of infratentorial lesions in depression and anxiety in multiple sclerosis
Federica Giofrè, Alessandra Lugaresi, Flavia Baccari, Elaine Lui, Stefanie Roberts, Charles Malpas, Tomas Kalincik
J Neurol. 2025 May 26;272(6):420. doi: 10.1007/s00415-025-13167-0.

Multiple Sclerosis Classification Using the Local Divergence Exponent: Parameters Selection for State-Space Reconstruction
L Eduardo Cofré Lizama, Liuhua Peng, Tomas Kalincik, Mary P Galea, Maya G Panisset
Sensors (Basel). 2025 Apr 30;25(9):2819. doi: 10.3390/s25092819.

Multimodal prognostication of autoimmune encephalitis: an Australian autoimmune encephalitis consortium study
Nabil Seery, Robb Wesselingh, Paul Beech, James Broadley, Sarah Griffith, Tiffany Rushen, James Beharry, Caleb Tan, Noushin Chiniforoush, Laurie McLaughlin, Liora Ter Horst, Mirasol Forcadela, Tracie Tan, Christina Kazzi, Cassie Nesbitt, Katherine Buzzard, Andrew Duncan, Amy Halliday, Wendyl D'Souza, Yang Tran, Anneke Van Der Walt, Genevieve Skinner, Andrew Swayne, Charles B Malpas, Amy Brodtmann, David Gillis, Bruce Taylor, Ernest G Butler, Tomas Kalincik, Udaya Seneviratne, Richard Macdonell, Stefan Blum, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Stephen W Reddel, Todd A Hardy, Terence J O'Brien, Paul Sanfilippo, Helmut Butzkueven, Mastura Monif, Australian Autoimmune Encephalitis Consortium
J Neurol. 2025 Apr 25;272(5):361. doi: 10.1007/s00415-025-13069-1.

Standardized Definition of Progression Independent of Relapse Activity (PIRA) in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
Jannis Müller, Sifat Sharmin, Johannes Lorscheider, Serkan Ozakbas, Rana Karabudak, Dana Horakova, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Vahid Shaygannejad, Masoud Etemadifar, Raed Alroughani, Francesco Patti, Sara Eichau, Alexandre Prat, Alessandra Lugaresi, Valentina Tomassini, Allan G Kermode, Maria Pia Amato, Recai Turkoglu, Ayse Altintas, Katherine Buzzard, Aysun Soysal, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Yolanda Blanco, Oliver Gerlach, Samia J Khoury, Michael Barnett, Nevin John, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Matteo Foschi, Andrea Surcinelli, Vincent van Pesch, Julie Prevost, Maria Jose Sa, Davide Maimone, Marie D'hooghe, Stella Hughes, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Chris McGuigan, Elisabetta Cartechini, Bruce Taylor, Daniele Spitaleri, Mark Slee, Pamela McCombe, Bassem Yamout, Pascal Benkert, Jens Kuhle, Ludwig Kappos, Izanne Roos, Tomas Kalincik, MSBase Study Group, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Marc Girard, Pierre Duquette, Marzena Fabis-Pedrini, William M Carroll, Olga Skibina, Riadh Gouider, Saloua Mrabet, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Claudio Solaro, Mario Habek, Bart Van Wijmeersch, Radek Ampapa, Richard Macdonell, Celia Oreja-Guevara, Koen de Gans, Guy Laureys, Jiwon Oh, Justin Garber, Orla Gray, Eduardo Agüera-Morales, Jose Luis Sanchez-Menoyo, Tamara Castillo-Triviño, Nikolaos Grigoriadis, Thor Petersen, Todd A Hardy, Steve Vucic, Stephen Reddel, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Mihaela Simu, Seyed Mohammad Baghbanian, Dieter Poehlau, Talal Al-Harbi, Juan Ignacio Rojas, Norma Deri, Patrice Lalive, Melissa Cambron, Tunde Csepany, Neil Shuey, Barbara Willekens, Cameron Shaw, Danny Decoo, Jennifer Massey, Özgür Yaldizli, Tobias Derfuss, Cristina Granziera
JAMA Neurol. 2025 Jun 1;82(6):614-625. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2025.0495.

Progression independent of relapse activity and relapse-associated worsening in seronegative NMOSD: an international cohort study
Pakeeran Siriratnam, Saif Huda, Anneke Van der Walt, Paul Sanfilippo, Sifat Sharmin, Yi Chao Foong, Wei Zhen Yeh, Chao Zhu, Samia J Khoury, Tunde Csepany, Barbara Willekens, Masoud Etemadifar, Serkan Ozakbas, Petra Nytrova, Ayse Altintas, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Guy Laureys, Francesco Patti, Dana Horakova, Matteo Foschi, Cavit Boz, Pamela McCombe, Recai Turkoglu, Izanne Roos, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Tomas Kalincik, Vilija Jokubaitis, Helmut Butzkueven, Mastura Monif
J Neurol. 2025 Apr 14;272(5):339. doi: 10.1007/s00415-025-13064-6.

Recommendations for essential medicines for multiple sclerosis in low-resource settings
Deanna Saylor, Nick Rijke, Jennifer McDonell, Joanna Laurson-Doube, Jagannadha Avasarala, Elisa Baldin, Tapas K Banerjee, Ivana Bogdanovic, Riley Bove, D K Chawla, Kathleen Costello, Cinzia Del Giovane, Najoua El Abkari, Graziella Filippini, Matteo Foschi, Marien Gonzalez-Lorenzo, Anne Helme, Dina Jacobs, Tomas Kalincik, Aukje Mantel-Teeuwisse, Silvia Minozzi, Carlos Navas, Francesco Nonino, Oluwadamilola O Ojo, Bianca Ozcan, Elisabetta Pasi, Guy Peryer, Andrea Prato Chichiraldi, Ben Ridley, Dilraj S Sokhi, Anthony Traboulsee, Irene Tramacere, Janis Sn Tye, Simona Vecchi, Shanthi Viswanathan, Feng Xie, Maya Zeineddine, Holger Schunemann, Thomas Piggott
Mult Scler. 2025 Apr;31(4):464-473. doi: 10.1177/13524585241308134. Epub 2024 Dec 31.

Long-term acceptability of MSReactor digital cognitive monitoring among people living with multiple sclerosis
Daniel Merlo, Johnson Ja, Yi Chao Foong, Chao Zhu, Melissa Gresle, Tomas Kalincik, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Trevor Kilpatrick, Michael Barnett, Bruce Taylor, Katherine Buzzard, David Darby, Helmut Butzkueven, Anneke van der Walt
Mult Scler. 2025 Apr;31(5):595-606. doi: 10.1177/13524585251329035. Epub 2025 Apr 1.

Efficacy of natalizumab in secondary progressive multiple sclerosis: analysis of two phase III trials
Winston Dzau, Izanne Roos, Tomas Kalincik
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2025 Sep 12;96(10):953-959. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2024-335495.

Longitudinal Trajectories of Digital Cognitive Biomarkers for Multiple Sclerosis
Yi Chao Foong, Daniel Merlo, Melissa Gresle, Chao Zhu, Katherine Buzzard, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Michael Barnett, Chenyu Wang, Bruce V Taylor, Tomas Kalincik, Trevor Kilpatrick, David Darby, Pamela Dobay, Johan van Beek, Robert Hyde, Steve Simpson-Yap, Helmut Butzkueven, Anneke van der Walt
Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2025 Apr;12(4):842-850. doi: 10.1002/acn3.70015. Epub 2025 Feb 25.

First-year treatment response predicts the following 5-year disease course in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis
Simona Toscano, Tim Spelman, Serkan Ozakbas, Raed Alroughani, Clara G Chisari, Salvatore Lo Fermo, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Pierre Duquette, Guillermo Izquierdo, Sara Eichau, Pierre Grammond, Cavit Boz, Tomas Kalincik, Yolanda Blanco, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Maria Jose Sa, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Murat Terzi, Oliver Gerlach, Francois Grand'Maison, Matteo Foschi, Andrea Surcinelli, Michael Barnett, Alessandra Lugaresi, Marco Onofrj, Bassem Yamout, Samia J Khoury, Julie Prevost, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Davide Maimone, Maria Pia Amato, Daniele Spitaleri, Vincent Van Pesch, Richard Macdonell, Elisabetta Cartechini, Koen de Gans, Mark Slee, Tamara Castillo-Triviño, Aysun Soysal, Jose Luis Sanchez-Menoyo, Guy Laureys, Liesbeth Van Hijfte, Pamela McCombe, Ayse Altintas, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Eduardo Aguera-Morales, Masoud Etemadifar, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Nevin John, Recai Turkoglu, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Sarah Besora, Bart Van Wijmeersch, Ricardo Fernandez-Bolaños, Francesco Patti, MSBase Study Group
Neurotherapeutics. 2025 Mar;22(2):e00552. doi: 10.1016/j.neurot.2025.e00552. Epub 2025 Feb 17.

Explainable time-to-progression predictions in multiple sclerosis
Robbe D'hondt, Klest Dedja, Sofie Aerts, Bart Van Wijmeersch, Tomas Kalincik, Stephen Reddel, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Alessandra Lugaresi, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Saloua Mrabet, Patrice Lalive, Allan G Kermode, Serkan Ozakbas, Francesco Patti, Alexandre Prat, Valentina Tomassini, Izanne Roos, Raed Alroughani, Oliver Gerlach, Samia J Khoury, Vincent van Pesch, Maria José Sá, Julie Prevost, Daniele Spitaleri, Pamela McCombe, Claudio Solaro, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Guy Laureys, José Luis Sánchez-Menoyo, Koen de Gans, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Norma Deri, Tunde Csepany, Talal Al-Harbi, William M Carroll, Csilla Rozsa, Bhim Singhal, Todd A Hardy, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Liesbet Peeters, Celine Vens, MSBase Study Group
Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2025 May;263:108624. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2025.108624. Epub 2025 Feb 6.

Treatment De-escalation in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis: An Observational Study
Jannis Müller, Sifat Sharmin, Johannes Lorscheider, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Sara Eichau, Francesco Patti, Pierre Grammond, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Francois Grand'Maison, Raed Alroughani, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Daniele Spitaleri, Michael Barnett, Elisabetta Cartechini, Maria Jose Sa, Oliver Gerlach, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Julie Prevost, Tamara Castillo-Triviño, Bassem Yamout, Samia J Khoury, Özgür Yaldizli, Tobias Derfuss, Cristina Granziera, Jens Kuhle, Ludwig Kappos, Izanne Roos, Tomas Kalincik, MSBase Study Group
CNS Drugs. 2025 Apr;39(4):403-416. doi: 10.1007/s40263-025-01164-w. Epub 2025 Feb 14.

Consensus recommendations on multiple sclerosis management in Australia and New Zealand: part 2
Jessica Shipley, James Beharry, Wei Yeh, Nabil Seery, Yi Chao Foong, Darshini Ayton, Pakeeran Siriratnam, Tracie Tan, Heidi Beadnall, Joshua Barton, Francesca Bridge, Robb Wesselingh, Lisa Taylor, Louise Rath, Jodi Haartsen, Mohammad Gadi, Cassie Nesbitt, Michael Zhong, Victoria Cushing, Fiona McKay, Julia Morahan, Benjamin Peter Trewin, Izanne Roos, Mark Marriott, Ai-Lan Nguyen, Emma Downey, Joanne Crosby, Julian Bosco, Jennifer Taylor, Lauren Giles, Nevin John, Ernest Butler, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Stefan Blum, Marion Simpson, Mark Slee, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Todd Hardy, Richard A L Macdonell, Katherine Buzzard, Deborah F Mason, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Trevor J Kilpatrick, Tomas Kalincik, Bruce V Taylor, Simon A Broadley, Stephen Reddel, Douglas Johnson, Mastura Monif, MS Interest Group, Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists
Med J Aust. 2025 Apr 21;222(7):365-371. doi: 10.5694/mja2.52577. Epub 2025 Feb 9.

Consensus recommendations on multiple sclerosis management in Australia and New Zealand: part 1
Jessica Shipley, James Beharry, Wei Yeh, Nabil Seery, Yi Chao Foong, Darshini Ayton, Pakeeran Siriratnam, Tracie Tan, Heidi Beadnall, Joshua Barton, Francesca Bridge, Robb Wesselingh, Lisa Taylor, Louise Rath, Jodi Haartsen, Mohammad Gadi, Cassie Nesbitt, Michael Zhong, Victoria Cushing, Fiona McKay, Julia Morahan, Benjamin Peter Trewin, Izanne Roos, Mark Marriott, Ai-Lan Nguyen, Emma Downey, Joanne Crosby, Julian Bosco, Jennifer Taylor, Lauren Giles, Nevin John, Ernest Butler, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Stefan Blum, Marion Simpson, Mark Slee, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Todd Hardy, Richard A L Macdonell, Katherine Buzzard, Deborah F Mason, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Trevor J Kilpatrick, Tomas Kalincik, Bruce V Taylor, Simon A Broadley, Stephen Reddel, Douglas Johnson, Mastura Monif, MS Interest Group, Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists
Med J Aust. 2025 Apr 21;222(7):356-364. doi: 10.5694/mja2.52578. Epub 2025 Feb 9.

Correction: Estimation of Transition Probabilities from a Large Cohort (> 6000) of Australians Living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for Changing Disability Severity Classifications, MS Phenotype, and Disease-Modifying Therapy Classifications
Julie A Campbell, Glen J Henson, Valery Fuh Ngwa, Hasnat Ahmad, Bruce V Taylor, Ingrid van der Mei, MSBase Australian Researchers, Andrew J Palmer
Pharmacoeconomics. 2025 Feb;43(2):241. doi: 10.1007/s40273-024-01461-0.

Longitudinal trajectories of digital upper limb biomarkers for multiple sclerosis
Yi Chao Foong, Daniel Merlo, Melissa Gresle, Chao Zhu, Katherine Buzzard, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Michael Barnett, Bruce V Taylor, Tomas Kalincik, Trevor Kilpatrick, David Darby, Pamela Dobay, Johan van Beek, Robert Hyde, Steve Simpson-Yap, Helmut Butzkueven, Anneke van der Walt
Eur J Neurol. 2025 Jan;32(1):e70000. doi: 10.1111/ene.70000.

Strong diagnostic performance of plasma ptau217 for CSF biomarker-defined young-onset Alzheimer disease in a diagnostically heterogeneous clinical cohort
Dhamidhu Eratne, Qiao-Xin Li, Courtney Lewis, Christa Dang, Matthew J Y Kang, Jasleen Grewal, Samantha Loi, Mark Walterfang, Andrew H Evans, Charles B Malpas, Steve Pedrini, Ralph Martins, Pratishtha Chatterjee, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Samuel F Berkovic, Alexander F Santillo, Steven Collins, Colin L Masters, Dennis Velakoulis, MiND Study Group
J Neurol. 2024 Dec 12;272(1):25. doi: 10.1007/s00415-024-12732-3.

Disease-modifying treatment and disability progression in subclasses of patients with primary progressive MS: results from the Big MS Data Network
Johannes Lorscheider, Alessio Signori, Suvitha Subramaniam, Pascal Benkert, Sandra Vukusic, Maria Trojano, Jan Hillert, Anna Glaser, Robert Hyde, Tim Spelman, Melinda Magyari, Frederik Elberling, Luigi Pontieri, Nils Koch-Henriksen, Per Soelberg Sørensen, Oliver Gerlach, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Sara Eichau, Pierre Grammond, Dana Horakova, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Izanne Roos, Katherine Buzzard, Jeanette Lechner Scott, José Luis Sánchez-Menoyo, Raed Alroughani, Julie Prévost, Jens Kuhle, Orla Gray, Guillaume Mathey, Laure Michel, Jonathan Ciron, Jérôme De Sèze, Elisabeth Maillart, Aurelie Ruet, Pierre Labauge, Helene Zephir, Arnaud Kwiatkowski, Anneke van der Walt, Tomas Kalincik, Helmut Butzkueven, Italian MS Register, Observatoire Français de la Sclérose en Plaques (OFSEP), MSBase Study Group, Swedish MS Registry, Big MS Data Network
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2025 May 14;96(6):606-615. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2024-334700.

Prevalence of Progression Independent of Relapse Activity and Relapse-Associated Worsening in Patients With AQP4-IgG-Positive NMOSD
Pakeeran Siriratnam, Saif Huda, Anneke Van Der Walt, Paul G Sanfilippo, Sifat Sharmin, Yi Chao Foong, Wei Z Yeh, Chao Zhu, Samia J Khoury, Tunde Csepany, Barbara Willekens, Masoud Etemadifar, Serkan Ozakbas, Petra Nytrova, Ayse Altintas, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Cristina M Ramo-Tello, Guy Laureys, Francesco Patti, Dana Horakova, Matteo Foschi, Cavit Boz, Pamela A Mccombe, Recai Turkoglu, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Izanne Roos, Tomas Kalincik, Vilija G Jokubaitis, Helmut Butzkueven, Mastura Monif, for MSBase
Neurology. 2024 Dec 24;103(12):e209940. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000209940. Epub 2024 Nov 19.

Utility of icobrain for brain volumetry in multiple sclerosis clinical practice
Ai-Lan Nguyen, Maria Pia Sormani, Dana Horakova, Eva H Havrdova, Michael H Barnett, Nicola De Stefano, Marco Battaglini, Manuela Vaneckova, Elaine Lui, Frank Gaillard, Patricia M Desmond, Hayden Prime, Mineesh Datta, Anneke Van der Walt, Vilija G Jokubaitis, Femke Podevyn, Robert Zivadinov, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Marie B D'hooghe, Guy Nagels, Vincent Van Pesch, Guy Laureys, Liesbeth Van Hijfte, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Francesco Patti, Edgardo Cristiano, Juan I Rojas, Diana M Sima, Wim Van Hecke, Tomas Kalincik, Helmut Butzkueven
Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2024 Dec;92:106148. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2024.106148. Epub 2024 Nov 8.

The impact of COVID-19 infection on multiple sclerosis disease course across 12 countries: a propensity-score-matched cohort study
David Levitz, Yi Chao Foong, Paul Sanfilippo, Tim Spelman, Louise Rath, Angie Roldan, Anoushka Lal, Mastura Monif, Vilija Jokubaitis, Serkan Ozakbas, Raed Alroughani, Cavit Boz, Murat Terzi, Tomas Kalincik, Yolanda Blanco, Matteo Foschi, Andrea Surcinelli, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Guy Laureys, Liesbeth Van Hijfte, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Aysun Soysal, Jose Luis Sanchez-Menoyo, Mario Habek, Elisabetta Cartechini, Juan Ignacio Rojas, Rana Karabudak, Barbara Willekens, Talal Al-Harbi, Yara Fragoso, Tamara Castillo-Triviño, Danny Decoo, Maria Cecilia Aragon de Vecino, Eli Skromne, Carmen-Adella Sirbu, Chao Zhu, Daniel Merlo, Melissa Gresle, Helmut Butzkueven, Anneke Van Der Walt
Ther Adv Neurol Disord. 2024 Nov 7;17:17562864241278496. doi: 10.1177/17562864241278496. eCollection 2024.

Disease Activity in Pregnant and Postpartum Women With Multiple Sclerosis Receiving Ocrelizumab or Other Disease-Modifying Therapies
Wei Z Yeh, Anneke Van Der Walt, Olga G Skibina, Tomas Kalincik, Raed Alroughani, Allan G Kermode, Marzena J Fabis-Pedrini, William M Carroll, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Cavit Boz, Serkan Ozakbas, Katherine Buzzard, Mario Habek, Nevin A John, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Pierre Duquette, Seyed Mohammad Baghbanian, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Vincent Van Pesch, Guy Laureys, Barbara Willekens, Julie Prevost, Matteo Foschi, Koen De Gans, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Rana Karabudak, Francesco Patti, Pamela A Mccombe, Davide Maimone, Ayse Altintas, Radek Ampapa, Daniele Spitaleri, Oliver H H Gerlach, Maria Jose Sa, Stella Hughes, Riadh Gouider, Saloua Mrabet, Richard A Macdonell, Recai Turkoglu, Elisabetta Cartechini, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Aysun Soysal, Jiwon Oh, Erwan Muros-Le Rouzic, Sabrina Guye, Noemi Pasquarelli, Helmut Butzkueven, Vilija G Jokubaitis, MSBase Study Group
Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2024 Nov;11(6):e200328. doi: 10.1212/NXI.0000000000200328. Epub 2024 Oct 23.

Approach to Managing the Initial Presentation of Multiple Sclerosis: A Worldwide Practice Survey
Jodie I Roberts, Aravind Ganesh, Luca Bartolini, Tomas Kalincik
Neurol Clin Pract. 2025 Feb;15(1):e200376. doi: 10.1212/CPJ.0000000000200376. Epub 2024 Oct 9.

Plasma and CSF neurofilament light chain distinguish neurodegenerative from primary psychiatric conditions in a clinical setting
Dhamidhu Eratne, Matthew J Y Kang, Courtney Lewis, Christa Dang, Charles B Malpas, Michael Keem, Jasleen Grewal, Vladimir Marinov, Amy Coe, Cath Kaylor-Hughes, Thomas Borchard, Chhoa Keng-Hong, Alexandra Waxmann, Burcu Saglam, Tomas Kalincik, Richard Kanaan, Wendy Kelso, Andrew Evans, Sarah Farrand, Samantha Loi, Mark Walterfang, Christiane Stehmann, Qiao-Xin Li, Steven Collins, Colin L Masters, Alexander F Santillo, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Samuel F Berkovic, Dennis Velakoulis, MiND Study Group
Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Nov;20(11):7989-8001. doi: 10.1002/alz.14278. Epub 2024 Oct 6.

Neuropsychological outcomes of patients with haematological malignancies undergoing chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy: protocol for a prospective study
Valeriya Kuznetsova, Harsh Oza, Hannah Rosenfeld, Carmela Sales, Samantha van der Linde, Izanne Roos, Stefanie Roberts, Fiore D'Aprano, Samantha M Loi, Mark Dowling, Michael Dickinson, Tomas Kalincik, Simon J Harrison, Mary Ann Anderson, Charles B Malpas
BMJ Neurol Open. 2024 Aug 22;6(2):e000800. doi: 10.1136/bmjno-2024-000800. eCollection 2024.

Effectiveness of Disease-Modifying Treatment on Spinal Cord Lesion Formation in Relapse-Onset Multiple Sclerosis: An MSBase Registry Study
Daniel Kreiter, Tomas Kalincik, Raymond Hupperts, Francesco Patti, Daniele Spitaleri, Matteo Foschi, Andrea Surcinelli, Davide Maimone, Bassem Yamout, Samia J Khoury, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Serkan Ozakbas, Oliver Gerlach, MSBase Study Group
CNS Drugs. 2024 Nov;38(11):921-930. doi: 10.1007/s40263-024-01115-x. Epub 2024 Sep 6.

A personalized approach for anti-CD20 therapies in multiple sclerosis
Laura Hogenboom, Zoé L E van Kempen, Tomas Kalincik, Amit Bar-Or, Joep Killestein
Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2024 Nov;91:105851. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2024.105851. Epub 2024 Aug 31.

Predictors of relapse risk and treatment response in AQP4-IgG positive and seronegative NMOSD: A multicentre study
Pakeeran Siriratnam, Paul Sanfilippo, Anneke van der Walt, Sifat Sharmin, Yi Chao Foong, Wei Zhen Yeh, Chao Zhu, Samia Joseph Khoury, Tunde Csepany, Barbara Willekens, Masoud Etemadifar, Serkan Ozakbas, Petra Nytrova, Ayse Altintas, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Bassem Yamout, Guy Laureys, Francesco Patti, Magdolna Simo, Andrea Surcinelli, Matteo Foschi, Pamela A McCombe, Raed Alroughani, José Luis Sánchez-Menoyo, Recai Turkoglu, Aysun Soysal, Jeanette Lechner Scott, Tomas Kalincik, Helmut Butzkueven, Vilija Jokubaitis, Saif Huda, Mastura Monif, MSBASE study group
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2025 Mar 24;96(4):361-369. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2024-334090.

The era of harmonised disability outcomes in multiple sclerosis
Tomas Kalincik
Mult Scler. 2024 Aug;30(9):1091-1092. doi: 10.1177/13524585241266517. Epub 2024 Aug 14.

Longitudinal epidemiology of multiple sclerosis over 60 years in Newcastle, Australia: 1961 to 2021
Steve Simpson-Yap, Vicki E Maltby, Stacey Hall, Sophia Ward, Rodney Lea, Mike Boggild, Tomas Kalincik, Cameron Shaw, Bruce Taylor, Anneke van der Walt, Jeannette Lechner-Scott
Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2024 Oct;90:105786. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2024.105786. Epub 2024 Jul 23.

Estimation of Transition Probabilities from a Large Cohort (> 6000) of Australians Living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) for Changing Disability Severity Classifications, MS Phenotype, and Disease-Modifying Therapy Classifications
Julie A Campbell, Glen J Henson, Valery Fuh Ngwa, Hasnat Ahmad, Bruce V Taylor, Ingrid van der Mei, MSBase Australian Researchers, Andrew J Palmer
Pharmacoeconomics. 2025 Feb;43(2):223-239. doi: 10.1007/s40273-024-01417-4. Epub 2024 Aug 2.

Effectiveness of cladribine compared to fingolimod, natalizumab, ocrelizumab and alemtuzumab in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis
Izanne Roos, Sifat Sharmin, Charles Malpas, Serkan Ozakbas, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Raed Alroughani, Sara Eichau Madueño, Cavit Boz, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Matteo Foschi, Francois Grand'Maison, Nevin John, Pierre Grammond, Murat Terzi, Julie Prévost, Michael Barnett, Guy Laureys, Liesbeth Van Hijfte, Jose Luis Sanchez-Menoyo, Yolanda Blanco, Jiwon Oh, Pamela McCombe, Cristina Ramo Tello, Aysun Soysal, Alexandre Prat, Pierre Duquette, Bassem I Yamout, Samia Khoury, Vincent van Pesch, Richard Macdonell, Maria José Sá, Mark Slee, Jens Kuhle, Davide Maimone, Daniele LA Spitaleri, Barbara Willekens, Abdallah Al Asmi, Emma Tallantyre, Neil P Robertson, Alasdair Coles, J William L Brown, Tomas Kalincik
Mult Scler. 2024 Aug;30(9):1163-1175. doi: 10.1177/13524585241267211. Epub 2024 Aug 1.

The clinical relevance of MOG antibody testing in cerebrospinal fluid
Molly Reynolds, Irene Tan, Kristy Nguyen, Vera Merheb, Fiona X Z Lee, Benjamin P Trewin, Magdalena Lerch, Snehal Shah, Nigel Wolfe, Katherine Buzzard, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Marzena Fabis-Pedrini, Anthony Fok, Nevin John, Chris Kneebone, Con Yiannikas, David A Brown, Allan G Kermode, Stephen Reddel, Russell C Dale, Fabienne Brilot, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Australasian MOGAD Study Group
Ann Clin Transl Neurol. 2024 Sep;11(9):2514-2519. doi: 10.1002/acn3.52163. Epub 2024 Jul 28.

Machine-learning-based prediction of disability progression in multiple sclerosis: An observational, international, multi-center study
Edward De Brouwer, Thijs Becker, Lorin Werthen-Brabants, Pieter Dewulf, Dimitrios Iliadis, Cathérine Dekeyser, Guy Laureys, Bart Van Wijmeersch, Veronica Popescu, Tom Dhaene, Dirk Deschrijver, Willem Waegeman, Bernard De Baets, Michiel Stock, Dana Horakova, Francesco Patti, Guillermo Izquierdo, Sara Eichau, Marc Girard, Alexandre Prat, Alessandra Lugaresi, Pierre Grammond, Tomas Kalincik, Raed Alroughani, Francois Grand'Maison, Olga Skibina, Murat Terzi, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Oliver Gerlach, Samia J Khoury, Elisabetta Cartechini, Vincent Van Pesch, Maria José Sà, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Yolanda Blanco, Radek Ampapa, Daniele Spitaleri, Claudio Solaro, Davide Maimone, Aysun Soysal, Gerardo Iuliano, Riadh Gouider, Tamara Castillo-Triviño, José Luis Sánchez-Menoyo, Guy Laureys, Anneke van der Walt, Jiwon Oh, Eduardo Aguera-Morales, Ayse Altintas, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Koen de Gans, Yara Fragoso, Tunde Csepany, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Norma Deri, Talal Al-Harbi, Bruce Taylor, Orla Gray, Patrice Lalive, Csilla Rozsa, Chris McGuigan, Allan Kermode, Angel Pérez Sempere, Simu Mihaela, Magdolna Simo, Todd Hardy, Danny Decoo, Stella Hughes, Nikolaos Grigoriadis, Attila Sas, Norbert Vella, Yves Moreau, Liesbet Peeters
PLOS Digit Health. 2024 Jul 25;3(7):e0000533. doi: 10.1371/journal.pdig.0000533. eCollection 2024 Jul.

CLADIN- CLADribine and INnate immune response in multiple sclerosis - A phase IV prospective study
Mastura Monif, Richard P Sequeira, Andrea Muscat, Sian Stuckey, Paul G Sanfilippo, Viet Minh, Naomi Loftus, Veronica Voo, Katherine Fazzolari, Melinda Moss, Vicki E Maltby, Ai-Lan Nguyen, Robb Wesselingh, Nabil Seery, Cassie Nesbitt, Josephine Baker, Chris Dwyer, Lisa Taylor, Louise Rath, Anneke Van der Walt, Mark Marriott, Tomas Kalincik, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Terence J O'Brien, Helmut Butzkueven
Clin Immunol. 2024 Aug;265:110304. doi: 10.1016/j.clim.2024.110304. Epub 2024 Jul 2.

A multi-centre longitudinal study analysing multiple sclerosis disease-modifying therapy prescribing patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic
Anoushka P Lal, Yi Chao Foong, Paul G Sanfilippo, Tim Spelman, Louise Rath, David Levitz, Marzena Fabis-Pedrini, Matteo Foschi, Mario Habek, Tomas Kalincik, Izanne Roos, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Nevin John, Aysun Soysal, Emanuele D'Amico, Riadh Gouider, Saloua Mrabet, Katrin Gross-Paju, Simón Cárdenas-Robledo, Abdorreza Naser Moghadasi, Maria Jose Sa, Orla Gray, Jiwon Oh, Stephen Reddel, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Talal Al-Harbi, Ayse Altintas, Todd A Hardy, Serkan Ozakbas, Raed Alroughani, Allan G Kermode, Andrea Surcinelli, Guy Laureys, Sara Eichau, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Pierre Duquette, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Davide Maimone, Pamela McCombe, Daniele Spitaleri, Jose Luis Sanchez-Menoyo, Mehmet Fatih Yetkin, Seyed Mohammad Baghbanian, Rana Karabudak, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Gregor Brecl Jakob, Samia J Khoury, Masoud Etemadifar, Vincent van Pesch, Katherine Buzzard, Bruce Taylor, Helmut Butzkueven, Anneke Van der Walt
J Neurol. 2024 Sep;271(9):5813-5824. doi: 10.1007/s00415-024-12518-7. Epub 2024 Jun 27.

Memory function in autoimmune encephalitis: a cross-sectional prospective study utilising multiple memory paradigms
Sarah P Griffith, Robb Wesselingh, Nabil Seery, Tiffany Rushen, Chris Kyndt, Brian Long, Udaya Seneviratne, Tomas Kalincik, Katherine Buzzard, Helmut Butzkueven, Terence J O'Brien, Rubina Alpitsis, Charles B Malpas, Mastura Monif, Australian Autoimmune Encephalitis Consortium
J Neurol. 2024 Aug;271(8):5610-5621. doi: 10.1007/s00415-024-12520-z. Epub 2024 Jun 25.

Oral corticosteroid dosage and taper duration at onset in myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease influences time to first relapse
Benjamin P Trewin, Russell C Dale, Jessica Qiu, Melissa Chu, Niroshan Jeyakumar, Fionna Dela Cruz, Jane Andersen, Pakeeran Siriratnam, Kit Kwan M Ma, Todd A Hardy, Anneke van der Walt, Jeanette Lechner-Scott, Helmut Butzkueven, Simon A Broadley, Michael H Barnett, Stephen W Reddel, Fabienne Brilot, Tomas Kalincik, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Australasian MOGAD Study Group
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2024 Oct 16;95(11):1054-1063. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2024-333463.

Escalating to medium- versus high-efficacy disease modifying therapy after low-efficacy treatment in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis
Jannis Müller, Izanne Roos, Tomas Kalincik, Johannes Lorscheider, Edoardo Galli, Pascal Benkert, Sabine Schädelin, Sifat Sharmin, Maximilian Einsiedler, Peter Hänni, Jürg Schmid, Jens Kuhle, Tobias Derfuss, Cristina Granziera, Tjalf Ziemssen, Timo Siepmann, Özgür Yaldizli
Brain Behav. 2024 May;14(5):e3498. doi: 10.1002/brb3.3498.

Postural behaviour in people with multiple sclerosis: A complexity paradox
L Eduardo Cofré Lizama, Maya G Panisset, Liuhua Peng, Ying Tan, Tomas Kalincik, Mary P Galea
Gait Posture. 2024 Jun;111:14-21. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2024.03.013. Epub 2024 Mar 27.

Routine CSF parameters as predictors of disease course in multiple sclerosis: an MSBase cohort study
Cathérine Dekeyser, Matthias Hautekeete, Melissa Cambron, Vincent Van Pesch, Francesco Patti, Jens Kuhle, Samia Khoury, Jeanette Lechner Scott, Oliver Gerlach, Alessandra Lugaresi, Davide Maimone, Andrea Surcinelli, Pierre Grammond, Tomas Kalincik, Mario Habek, Barbara Willekens, Richard Macdonell, Patrice Lalive, Tunde Csepany, Helmut Butzkueven, Cavit Boz, Valentina Tomassini, Matteo Foschi, José Luis Sánchez-Menoyo, Ayse Altintas, Saloua Mrabet, Gerardo Iuliano, Maria Jose Sa, Raed Alroughani, Rana Karabudak, Eduardo Aguera-Morales, Orla Gray, Koen de Gans, Anneke van der Walt, Pamela A McCombe, Norma Deri, Justin Garber, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Olga Skibina, Pierre Duquette, Elisabetta Cartechini, Daniele Spitaleri, Riadh Gouider, Aysun Soysal, Liesbeth Van Hijfte, Mark Slee, Maria Pia Amato, Katherine Buzzard, Guy Laureys
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2024 Oct 16;95(11):1021-1031. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2023-333307.

Disease-modifying therapies in managing disability worsening in paediatric-onset multiple sclerosis: a longitudinal analysis of global and national registries
Sifat Sharmin, Izanne Roos, Charles B Malpas, Pietro Iaffaldano, Marta Simone, Massimo Filippi, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Serkan Ozakbas, Vincenzo Brescia Morra, Raed Alroughani, Mauro Zaffaroni, Francesco Patti, Sara Eichau, Giuseppe Salemi, Alessia Di Sapio, Matilde Inglese, Emilio Portaccio, Maria Trojano, Maria Pia Amato, Tomas Kalincik, Writing Group, Italian Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders Register and MSBase Study Group
Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2024 May;8(5):348-357. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(24)00047-6. Epub 2024 Mar 25.

Effectiveness of autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation versus natalizumab in progressive multiple sclerosis
Tomas Kalincik, Sifat Sharmin, Izanne Roos, Jennifer Massey, Ian Sutton, Barbara Withers, Mark S Freedman, Harold Atkins, Eva Krasulova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Marek Trneny, Tomas Kozak, Joachim Burman, Richard Macdonell, Øivind Torkildsen, Lars Bø, Anne Kristine Lehmann, Basil Sharrack, John Snowden
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2024 Jul 15;95(8):775-783. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2023-332790.

Comparing ocrelizumab to interferon/glatiramer acetate in people with multiple sclerosis over age 60
Yi Chao Foong, Daniel Merlo, Melissa Gresle, Katherine Buzzard, Michael Zhong, Wei Zhen Yeh, Vilija Jokubaitis, Mastura Monif, Olga Skibina, Serkan Ozakbas, Francesco Patti, Pierre Grammond, Maria Pia Amato, Tomas Kalincik, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Jeanette Lechner Scott, Cavit Boz, Maria Jose Sa, Helmut Butzkueven, Anneke van der Walt, Chao Zhu, MSBASE study group
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2024 Jul 15;95(8):767-774. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2023-332883.

Long-term clinical outcomes in patients with multiple sclerosis who are initiating disease-modifying therapy with natalizumab compared with BRACETD first-line therapies
Helmut Butzkueven, Tomas Kalincik, Francesco Patti, Mark Slee, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Raed Alroughani, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Anneke Van der Walt, Sara Eichau, Robert Hyde, Nolan Campbell, Karthik Bodhinathan, Tim Spelman, MSBase Investigators
Ther Adv Neurol Disord. 2024 Feb 26;17:17562864231221331. doi: 10.1177/17562864231221331. eCollection 2024.

Language impairments in seropositive and seronegative autoimmune encephalitis
Sarah P Griffith, Robb Wesselingh, Fiore D'Aprano, Nabil Seery, Tiffany Rushen, Chris Kyndt, Brian Long, Udaya Seneviratne, Tomas Kalincik, Katherine Buzzard, Helmut Butzkueven, Terence J O'Brien, Rubina Alpitsis, Charles B Malpas, Mastura Monif, Australian Autoimmune Encephalitis Consortium
Neurol Sci. 2024 Jul;45(7):3389-3398. doi: 10.1007/s10072-024-07382-2. Epub 2024 Feb 15.

Sample Entropy Improves Assessment of Postural Control in Early-Stage Multiple Sclerosis
L Eduardo Cofré Lizama, Xiangyu He, Tomas Kalincik, Mary P Galea, Maya G Panisset
Sensors (Basel). 2024 Jan 29;24(3):872. doi: 10.3390/s24030872.

Risk of Cervical Abnormalities for Women With Multiple Sclerosis Treated With Moderate-Efficacy and High-Efficacy Disease-Modifying Therapies
Francesca Bridge, Julia Brotherton, Jim Stankovich, Paul G Sanfilippo, Olga G Skibina, Katherine Buzzard, Tomas Kalincik, Ai-Lan Nguyen, Kylie Guo, Mastura Monif, C David Wrede, Louise Rath, Lisa Taylor, Helmut Butzkueven, Vilija G Jokubaitis, Anneke Van Der Walt
Neurology. 2024 Feb;102(4):e208059. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000208059. Epub 2024 Feb 2.

The MOG antibody non-P42 epitope is predictive of a relapsing course in MOG antibody-associated disease
Ganesha Liyanage, Benjamin P Trewin, Joseph A Lopez, Jane Andersen, Fiona Tea, Vera Merheb, Kristy Nguyen, Fiona X Z Lee, Marzena J Fabis-Pedrini, Alicia Zou, Ali Buckland, Anthony Fok, Michael H Barnett, Stephen W Reddel, Romain Marignier, Aseel El Hajj, Mastura Monif, Anneke van der Walt, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Allan G Kermode, Tomas Kalincik, Simon A Broadley, Russell C Dale, Sudarshini Ramanathan, Fabienne Brilot, on behalf the Australasian MOGAD Study Group
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2024 May 14;95(6):544-553. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2023-332851.

Emulating randomised clinical trials in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis with non-randomised real-world evidence: an application using data from the MSBase Registry
Alessio Signori, Marta Ponzano, Tomas Kalincik, Serkan Ozakbas, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Raed Alroughani, Francesco Patti, Jens Kuhle, Guillermo Izquierdo, Sara Eichau, Bassem Yamout, Samia Joseph Khoury, Rana Karabudak, Pierre Grammond, Pierre Duquette, Izanne Roos, Helmut Butzkueven, Anneke van der Walt, Maria Pia Sormani
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2024 Jun 17;95(7):620-625. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2023-332603.

Predictors of treatment switching in the Big Multiple Sclerosis Data Network
Tim Spelman, Melinda Magyari, Helmut Butzkueven, Anneke Van Der Walt, Sandra Vukusic, Maria Trojano, Pietro Iaffaldano, Dana Horáková, Jirí Drahota, Fabio Pellegrini, Robert Hyde, Pierre Duquette, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Seyed Aidin Sajedi, Patrice Lalive, Vahid Shaygannejad, Serkan Ozakbas, Sara Eichau, Raed Alroughani, Murat Terzi, Marc Girard, Tomas Kalincik, Francois Grand'Maison, Olga Skibina, Samia J Khoury, Bassem Yamout, Maria Jose Sa, Oliver Gerlach, Yolanda Blanco, Rana Karabudak, Celia Oreja-Guevara, Ayse Altintas, Stella Hughes, Pamela McCombe, Radek Ampapa, Koen de Gans, Chris McGuigan, Aysun Soysal, Julie Prevost, Nevin John, Jihad Inshasi, Leszek Stawiarz, Ali Manouchehrinia, Lars Forsberg, Finn Sellebjerg, Anna Glaser, Luigi Pontieri, Hanna Joensen, Peter Vestergaard Rasmussen, Tobias Sejbaek, Mai Bang Poulsen, Jeppe Romme Christensen, Matthias Kant, Morten Stilund, Henrik Mathiesen, Jan Hillert, Big MS Data Network: a collaboration of the Czech MS Registry, the Danish MS Registry, Italian MS Registry, Swedish MS Registry, MSBase Study Group, and OFSEP
Front Neurol. 2023 Dec 22;14:1274194. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1274194. eCollection 2023.

Comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of natalizumab and fingolimod in rapidly evolving severe relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in the United Kingdom
T Spelman, W L Herring, C Acosta, R Hyde, V G Jokubaitis, E Pucci, A Lugaresi, G Laureys, E K Havrdova, D Horakova, G Izquierdo, S Eichau, S Ozakbas, R Alroughani, T Kalincik, P Duquette, M Girard, T Petersen, F Patti, T Csepany, F Granella, F Grand'Maison, D Ferraro, R Karabudak, M Jose Sa, M Trojano, V van Pesch, B Van Wijmeersch, E Cartechini, P McCombe, O Gerlach, D Spitaleri, C Rozsa, S Hodgkinson, R Bergamaschi, R Gouider, A Soysal, None Castillo-Triviño, J Prevost, J Garber, K de Gans, R Ampapa, M Simo, J L Sanchez-Menoyo, G Iuliano, A Sas, A van der Walt, N John, O Gray, S Hughes, G De Luca, M Onofrj, K Buzzard, O Skibina, M Terzi, M Slee, C Solaro, None Oreja-Guevara, C Ramo-Tello, Y Fragoso, V Shaygannejad, F Moore, C Rajda, E Aguera Morales, H Butzkueven
J Med Econ. 2024 Jan-Dec;27(1):109-125. doi: 10.1080/13696998.2023.2293379. Epub 2023 Dec 26.

Patterns of neurotoxicity among patients receiving chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy: A single-centre cohort study
Carmela Sales, Mary Ann Anderson, Valeriya Kuznetsova, Hannah Rosenfeld, Charles B Malpas, Izanne Roos, Michael Dickinson, Simon Harrison, Tomas Kalincik
Eur J Neurol. 2024 Mar;31(3):e16174. doi: 10.1111/ene.16174. Epub 2023 Dec 12.

Vitamin D did not reduce multiple sclerosis disease activity after a clinically isolated syndrome
Helmut Butzkueven, Anne-Louise Ponsonby, Mark S Stein, Robyn M Lucas, Deborah Mason, Simon Broadley, Trevor Kilpatrick, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Michael Barnett, William Carroll, Peter Mitchell, Todd A Hardy, Richard Macdonell, Pamela McCombe, Andrew Lee, Tomas Kalincik, Anneke van der Walt, Chris Lynch, David Abernethy, Ernest Willoughby, Frederik Barkhof, David MacManus, Michael Clarke, Julie Andrew, Julia Morahan, Chao Zhu, Keith Dear, Bruce V Taylor, PREVANZ Investigators
Brain. 2024 Apr 4;147(4):1206-1215. doi: 10.1093/brain/awad409.

How effective is effective enough?
Tomas Kalincik, Amy Brodtmann
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2023 Dec 14;95(1):1. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2023-332311.

Comparative Efficacy of Disease-Modifying Treatments for Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis-Variations in Real-World Experience-Reply
Izanne Roos, Tomas Kalincik
JAMA Neurol. 2024 Jan 1;81(1):87-88. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2023.4392.

Leveraging Real-World Evidence and Observational Studies in Treating Multiple Sclerosis
Albert Aboseif, Izanne Roos, Stephen Krieger, Tomas Kalincik, Carrie M Hersh
Neurol Clin. 2024 Feb;42(1):203-227. doi: 10.1016/j.ncl.2023.06.003. Epub 2023 Jul 21.

Methodological considerations for observational studies of treatment effectiveness in neurology: a clinician's guide
Tomas Kalincik, Izanne Roos, Sifat Sharmin, Charles B Malpas
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2024 Apr 12;95(5):454-460. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2022-330038.

Examining the environmental risk factors of progressive-onset and relapsing-onset multiple sclerosis: recruitment challenges, potential bias, and statistical strategies
Ying Li, Alice Saul, Bruce Taylor, Anne-Louise Ponsonby, Steve Simpson-Yap, Leigh Blizzard, Simon Broadley, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Ausimmune/AusLong Investigators Group, Rana Karabudak, Francesco Patti, Sara Eichau, Marco Onofrj, Serkan Ozakbas, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Francois Grand'Maison, Raed Alroughani, Oliver Gerlach, Maria Pia Amato, Ayse Altintas, Marc Girard, Pierre Duquette, Yolanda Blanco, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Guy Laureys, Tomas Kalincik, Samia J Khoury, Vahid Shaygannejad, Masoud Etemadifar, Bhim Singhal, Saloua Mrabet, Matteo Foschi, Mario Habek, Nevin John, Stella Hughes, Pamela McCombe, Radek Ampapa, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Koen de Gans, Chris McGuigan, Celia Oreja-Guevara, Maria Jose Sa, Thor Petersen, Talal Al-Harbi, Angel Perez Sempere, Bart Van Wijmeersch, Nikolaos Grigoriadis, Julie Prevost, Orla Gray, Tamara Castillo-Triviño, Richard Macdonell, Alessandra Lugaresi, Seyed Aidin Sajedi, MSBase, Ingrid van der Mei
J Neurol. 2024 Jan;271(1):472-485. doi: 10.1007/s00415-023-11980-z. Epub 2023 Sep 28.

Rates of John Cunningham virus seroconversion greatly reduced in natalizumab-treated patients during COVID-19-related lockdowns
Chris Dwyer, Sifat Sharmin, Tomas Kalincik
Eur J Neurol. 2024 Jan;31(1):e16059. doi: 10.1111/ene.16059. Epub 2023 Sep 14.

Observational studies of treatment effectiveness in neurology
Tomas Kalincik, Izanne Roos, Sifat Sharmin
Brain. 2023 Dec 1;146(12):4799-4808. doi: 10.1093/brain/awad278.

The Patient-Determined Disease Steps scale is not interchangeable with the Expanded Disease Status Scale in mild to moderate multiple sclerosis
Yi Chao Foong, Daniel Merlo, Melissa Gresle, Chao Zhu, Katherine Buzzard, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Michael Barnett, Bruce Taylor, Tomas Kalincik, Trevor Kilpatrick, David Darby, Pamela Dobay, Johan van Beek, Robert Hyde, Helmut Butzkueven, Anneke van der Walt
Eur J Neurol. 2024 Jan;31(1):e16046. doi: 10.1111/ene.16046. Epub 2023 Aug 24.

Plasma neurofilament light in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia compared to mood and psychotic disorders
Dhamidhu Eratne, Matthew Kang, Charles Malpas, Steve Simpson-Yap, Courtney Lewis, Christa Dang, Jasleen Grewal, Amy Coe, Hannah Dobson, Michael Keem, Wei-Hsuan Chiu, Tomas Kalincik, Suyi Ooi, David Darby, Amy Brodtmann, Oskar Hansson, Shorena Janelidze, Kaj Blennow, Henrik Zetterberg, Adam Walker, Olivia Dean, Michael Berk, Cassandra Wannan, Christos Pantelis, Samantha M Loi, Mark Walterfang, Samuel F Berkovic, Alexander F Santillo, Dennis Velakoulis
Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 2024 Jan;58(1):70-81. doi: 10.1177/00048674231187312. Epub 2023 Jul 21.

Early Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis: Time Is Brain
Erin E Longbrake, Tomas Kalincik
Neurology. 2023 Sep 26;101(13):549-550. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000207754. Epub 2023 Jul 19.

Longitudinal epidemiology of multiple sclerosis in Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 2012-2022
Steve Simpson-Yap, Duncan Maddox, Jeanette Reece, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Cameron Shaw, Bruce Taylor, Tomas Kalincik, Anneke van der Walt, Mike Boggild
Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2023 Sep;77:104845. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2023.104845. Epub 2023 Jun 28.

Comparative Effectiveness of Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant vs Fingolimod, Natalizumab, and Ocrelizumab in Highly Active Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
Tomas Kalincik, Sifat Sharmin, Izanne Roos, Mark S Freedman, Harold Atkins, Joachim Burman, Jennifer Massey, Ian Sutton, Barbara Withers, Richard Macdonell, Andrew Grigg, Øivind Torkildsen, Lars Bo, Anne Kristine Lehmann, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Eva Krasulova, Marek Trnený, Tomas Kozak, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Pamela McCombe, Olga Skibina, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Barbara Willekens, Elisabetta Cartechini, Serkan Ozakbas, Raed Alroughani, Jens Kuhle, Francesco Patti, Pierre Duquette, Alessandra Lugaresi, Samia J Khoury, Mark Slee, Recai Turkoglu, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Nevin John, Davide Maimone, Maria Jose Sa, Vincent van Pesch, Oliver Gerlach, Guy Laureys, Liesbeth Van Hijfte, Rana Karabudak, Daniele Spitaleri, Tunde Csepany, Riadh Gouider, Tamara Castillo-Triviño, Bruce Taylor, Basil Sharrack, John A Snowden, MSBase Study Group Collaborators, MSBase Study Group Authors, Saloua Mrabet, Justin Garber, Jose Luis Sanchez-Menoyo, Eduardo Aguera-Morales, Yolanda Blanco, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Yara Fragoso, Koen de Gans, Allan Kermode, MSBase Study Group
JAMA Neurol. 2023 Jul 1;80(7):702-713. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2023.1184.

Risk of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis after early worsening of disability
Winston Dzau, Sifat Sharmin, Francesco Patti, Guillermo Izquierdo, Sara Eichau, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Pierre Duquette, Marco Onofrj, Alessandra Lugaresi, Serkan Ozakbas, Oliver Gerlach, Cavit Boz, Pierre Grammond, Murat Terzi, Maria Pia Amato, Daniele La Spitaleri, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Davide Maimone, Elisabetta Cartechini, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Gerardo Iuliano, Aysun Soysal, Tomas Kalincik
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2023 Dec;94(12):984-991. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2023-331748. Epub 2023 Jul 6.

Effectiveness of multiple disease-modifying therapies in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: causal inference to emulate a multiarm randomised trial
Ibrahima Diouf, Charles B Malpas, Sifat Sharmin, Izanne Roos, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Francesco Patti, Vahid Shaygannejad, Serkan Ozakbas, Sara Eichau, Marco Onofrj, Alessandra Lugaresi, Raed Alroughani, Alexandre Prat, Pierre Duquette, Murat Terzi, Cavit Boz, Francois Grand'Maison, Patrizia Sola, Diana Ferraro, Pierre Grammond, Bassem Yamout, Ayse Altintas, Oliver Gerlach, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Roberto Bergamaschi, Rana Karabudak, Gerardo Iuliano, Christopher McGuigan, Elisabetta Cartechini, Stella Hughes, Maria Jose Sa, Claudio Solaro, Ludwig Kappos, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Mark Slee, Franco Granella, Koen de Gans, Pamela A McCombe, Radek Ampapa, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, José Luis Sánchez-Menoyo, Steve Vucic, Guy Laureys, Youssef Sidhom, Riadh Gouider, Tamara Castillo-Trivino, Orla Gray, Eduardo Aguera-Morales, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Cameron Shaw, Talal M Al-Harbi, Tunde Csepany, Angel P Sempere, Irene Treviño Frenk, Elizabeth A Stuart, Tomas Kalincik
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2023 Dec;94(12):1004-1011. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2023-331499. Epub 2023 Jul 6.

The risk of secondary progressive multiple sclerosis is geographically determined but modifiable
Sifat Sharmin, Izanne Roos, Steve Simpson-Yap, Charles Malpas, Marina M Sánchez, Serkan Ozakbas, Dana Horakova, Eva K Havrdova, Francesco Patti, Raed Alroughani, Guillermo Izquierdo, Sara Eichau, Cavit Boz, Magd Zakaria, Marco Onofrj, Alessandra Lugaresi, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Pierre Duquette, Murat Terzi, Maria Pia Amato, Rana Karabudak, Francois Grand'Maison, Samia J Khoury, Pierre Grammond, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Recai Turkoglu, Ayse Altintas, Davide Maimone, Allan Kermode, Nevin Shalaby, Vincent V Pesch, Ernest Butler, Youssef Sidhom, Riadh Gouider, Saloua Mrabet, Oliver Gerlach, Aysun Soysal, Michael Barnett, Jens Kuhle, Stella Hughes, Maria J Sa, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Celia Oreja-Guevara, Radek Ampapa, Thor Petersen, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Daniele Spitaleri, Pamela McCombe, Bruce Taylor, Julie Prevost, Matteo Foschi, Mark Slee, Chris McGuigan, Guy Laureys, Liesbeth V Hijfte, Koen de Gans, Claudio Solaro, Jiwon Oh, Richard Macdonell, Eduardo Aguera-Morales, Bhim Singhal, Orla Gray, Justin Garber, Bart V Wijmeersch, Mihaela Simu, Tamara Castillo-Triviño, Jose L Sanchez-Menoyo, Dheeraj Khurana, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Talal Al-Harbi, Norma Deri, Yara Fragoso, Patrice H Lalive, L G F Sinnige, Cameron Shaw, Neil Shuey, Tunde Csepany, Angel P Sempere, Fraser Moore, Danny Decoo, Barbara Willekens, Claudio Gobbi, Jennifer Massey, Todd Hardy, John Parratt, Tomas Kalincik
Brain. 2023 Nov 2;146(11):4633-4644. doi: 10.1093/brain/awad218.

Rituximab vs Ocrelizumab in Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
Izanne Roos, Stella Hughes, Gavin McDonnell, Charles B Malpas, Sifat Sharmin, Cavit Boz, Raed Alroughani, Serkan Ozakbas, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Jens Kuhle, Murat Terzi, Guy Laureys, Liesbeth Van Hijfte, Nevin John, Pierre Grammond, Francois Grand'Maison, Aysun Soysal, Ana Voldsgaard Jensen, Peter Vestergaard Rasmussen, Kristina Bacher Svendsen, Ismael Barzinji, Helle Hvilsted Nielsen, Tobias Sejbæk, Sivagini Prakash, Morten Leif Munding Stilund, Arkadiusz Weglewski, Nadia Mubder Issa, Matthias Kant, Finn Sellebjerg, Orla Gray, Melinda Magyari, Tomas Kalincik, MSBase Study GroupDanish MS Registry Study Group
JAMA Neurol. 2023 Aug 1;80(8):789-797. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2023.1625.

A plain language summary on the effectiveness of cladribine tablets compared with other oral treatments for multiple sclerosis: results from the MSBase registry
Tim Spelman, Serkan Ozakbas, Raed Alroughani, Murat Terzi, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Guy Laureys, Tomas Kalincik, Anneke Van Der Walt, Bassem Yamout, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Aysun Soysal, Jens Kuhle, Jose Luis Sanchez-Menoyo, Yolanda Blanco Morgado, Daniele LA Spitaleri, Vincent van Pesch, Dana Horakova, Radek Ampapa, Francesco Patti, Richard Macdonell, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Oliver Gerlach, Jiwon Oh, Ayse Altintas, Namita Tundia, Schiffon L Wong, Helmut Butzkueven, MSBase Study Group
Neurodegener Dis Manag. 2023 Aug;13(4):215-221. doi: 10.2217/nmt-2023-0005. Epub 2023 Jun 7.

Comparison Between Dimethyl Fumarate, Fingolimod, and Ocrelizumab After Natalizumab Cessation
Chao Zhu, Tomas Kalincik, Dana Horakova, Zhen Zhou, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Raed Alroughani, Guillermo Izquierdo, Sara Eichau, Jens Kuhle, Francesco Patti, Francois Grand'Maison, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Pierre Grammond, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Ernest Butler, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Pierre Duquette, Richard A L Macdonell, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Serkan Ozakbas, Mark Slee, Maria Jose Sa, Vincent Van Pesch, Michael Barnett, Bart Van Wijmeersch, Oliver Gerlach, Julie Prevost, Murat Terzi, Cavit Boz, Guy Laureys, Liesbeth Van Hijfte, Allan G Kermode, Justin Garber, Bassem Yamout, Samia J Khoury, Daniel Merlo, Mastura Monif, Vilija Jokubaitis, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, MSBase Study Group
JAMA Neurol. 2023 Jul 1;80(7):739-748. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2023.1542.

Modelling accessibility of adult neurology care in Australia, 2020-2034
Steve Simpson-Yap, Federico Frascoli, Lucinda Harrison, Charles Malpas, James Burrell, Nicholas Child, Lauren P Giles, Christian Lueck, Merrilee Needham, Benjamin Tsang, Tomas Kalincik
BMJ Neurol Open. 2023 Apr 27;5(1):e000407. doi: 10.1136/bmjno-2023-000407. eCollection 2023.

Cerebrospinal fluid neurofilament light predicts longitudinal diagnostic change in patients with psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders
Matthew J Y Kang, Dhamidhu Eratne, Hannah Dobson, Charles B Malpas, Michael Keem, Courtney Lewis, Jasleen Grewal, Vivian Tsoukra, Christa Dang, Ramon Mocellin, Tomas Kalincik, Alexander F Santillo, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Christiane Stehmann, Shiji Varghese, Qiao-Xin Li, Colin L Masters, Steven Collins, Samuel F Berkovic, Andrew Evans, Wendy Kelso, Sarah Farrand, Samantha M Loi, Mark Walterfang, Dennis Velakoulis
Acta Neuropsychiatr. 2024 Feb;36(1):17-28. doi: 10.1017/neu.2023.25. Epub 2023 Apr 28.

Disability accrual in primary and secondary progressive multiple sclerosis
Sam Harding-Forrester, Izanne Roos, Ai-Lan Nguyen, Charles B Malpas, Ibrahima Diouf, Nahid Moradi, Sifat Sharmin, Guillermo Izquierdo, Sara Eichau, Francesco Patti, Dana Horakova, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Alexandre Prat, Marc Girard, Pierre Duquette, Francois Grand'Maison, Marco Onofrj, Alessandra Lugaresi, Pierre Grammond, Serkan Ozakbas, Maria Pia Amato, Oliver Gerlach, Patrizia Sola, Diana Ferraro, Katherine Buzzard, Olga Skibina, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Raed Alroughani, Cavit Boz, Vincent Van Pesch, Elisabetta Cartechini, Murat Terzi, Davide Maimone, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Bassem Yamout, Samia Joseph Khoury, Daniele La Spitaleri, Maria Jose Sa, Yolanda Blanco, Franco Granella, Mark Slee, Ernest Butler, Youssef Sidhom, Riadh Gouider, Roberto Bergamaschi, Rana Karabudak, Radek Ampapa, José Luis Sánchez-Menoyo, Julie Prevost, Tamara Castillo-Trivino, Pamela A McCombe, Richard Macdonell, Guy Laureys, Liesbeth Van Hijfte, Jiwon Oh, Ayse Altintas, Koen de Gans, Recai Turkoglu, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Steve Vucic, Michael Barnett, Edgardo Cristiano, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Gerardo Iuliano, Ludwig Kappos, Jens Kuhle, Vahid Shaygannejad, Aysun Soysal, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Bart Van Wijmeersch, Tomas Kalincik, MSBase investigators
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2023 Sep;94(9):707-717. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2022-330726. Epub 2023 Apr 17.

Optimal sensor location and direction to accurately classify people with early-stage multiple sclerosis using gait stability
L Eduardo Cofré Lizama, Maya G Panisset, Liuhua Peng, Ying Tan, Tomas Kalincik, Mary P Galea
Gait Posture. 2023 May;102:39-42. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2023.02.009. Epub 2023 Feb 23.

Early non-disabling relapses are important predictors of disability accumulation in people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis
Cyrus Daruwalla, Vahid Shaygannejad, Serkan Ozakbas, Eva Kubala Havrdova, Dana Horakova, Raed Alroughani, Cavit Boz, Francesco Patti, Marco Onofrj, Alessandra Lugaresi, Sara Eichau, Marc Girard, Alexandre Prat, Pierre Duquette, Bassem Yamout, Samia J Khoury, Seyed Aidin Sajedi, Recai Turkoglu, Ayse Altintas, Olga Skibina, Katherine Buzzard, Pierre Grammond, Rana Karabudak, Anneke van der Walt, Helmut Butzkueven, Davide Maimone, Jeannette Lechner-Scott, Aysun Soysal, Nevin John, Julie Prevost, Daniele Spitaleri, Cristina Ramo-Tello, Oliver Gerlach, Gerardo Iuliano, Matteo Foschi, Radek Ampapa, Vincent van Pesch, Michael Barnett, Nevin Shalaby, Marie D'hooghe, Jens Kuhle, Maria Jose Sa, Marzena Fabis-Pedrini, Allan Kermode, Saloua Mrabet, Riadh Gouider, Suzanne Hodgkinson, Guy Laureys, Liesbeth Van Hijfte, Richard Macdonell, Celia Oreja-Guevara, Edgardo Cristiano, Pamela McCombe, Jose Luis Sanchez-Menoyo, Bhim Singhal, Yolanda Blanco, Stella Hughes, Justin Garber, Claudio Solaro, Chris McGuigan, Bruce Taylor, Koen de Gans, Mario Habek, Abdullah Al-Asmi, Simu Mihaela, Tamara Castillo Triviño, Talal Al-Harbi, Juan Ignacio Rojas, Orla Gray, Dheeraj Khurana, Bart Van Wijmeersch, Nikolaos Grigoriadis, Jihad Inshasi, Jiwon Oh, Eduardo Aguera-Morales, Yara Fragoso, Fraser Moore, Cameron Shaw, Seyed Mohammad Baghbanian, Neil Shuey, Barbara Willekens, Todd A Hardy, Danny Decoo, Angel Perez Sempere, Deborah Field, Ray Wynford-Thomas, Nick G Cunniffe, Izanne Roos, Charles B Malpas, Alasdair J Coles, Tomas Kalincik, J William L Brown
Mult Scler. 2023 Jun;29(7):875-883. doi: 10.1177/13524585231151951. Epub 2023 Feb 27.