Prof. Fabienne Brilot performed her Ph.D. in Belgium and at the JD Gladstone Institutes,UCSF,USA. She then became postdoctoral fellow under the mentorship of Professor Christian Munz (currently located at the University of Zurich,Switzerland} at the Browne Center for Immunology and Immune Diseases headed by late Professor Ralph Steinman (Nobel Prize for Medicine 2011} at the Rockefeller University,USA. She was recruited at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead in Sydney in 2007 where she started the Brain Autoimmunity group. Fabienne is currently Principal Research Fellow at the University of Sydney,and her research focuses on immune-mediated brain disorders such demyelinating disorders and movement and psychiatric disorders. Her group aims to discover biomarkers and explores the autoimmune response in patients to improve their diagnosis and treatment.