Filip Scheperjans

Filip Scheperjans, MD, PhD, studied medicine at the University of Düsseldorf (Germany) and gained international experience as a visiting student in London, New York and Helsinki. His doctoral thesis under Prof. Karl Zilles (C & O Vogt Institute for Brain Research, University of Düsseldorf and Institute of Medicine, Research Center Jülich, Germany) was concerned with the cytoarchitectonical and neurochemical anatomy of the human parietal lobe. He received the award for the best thesis of the medical faculty of the University of Düsseldorf in 2008. Now living in Finland he works as attending neurologist and clinical researcher at the Department of Neurology of Helsinki University Hospital. He has been involved in several international multicenter trials related to acute stroke treatment. His main research interests are movement disorders and acute neurology including stroke, status epilepticus and neuroimaging. Currently, his main focus in on the role of microbiota in Parkinson’s disease and his group was the first to demonstrate microbiome community structure alterations in Parkinson’s disease. For his groundbreaking work in this field he was awarded the Uschi Tschabitscher Prize for Young Neurologists by the European Academy of Neurology in 2014.