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Introduction

Dr. Douglas Kazutoshi Sato is the Superintendent for Teaching, Research and Development at Brain Institute of Rio Grande do Sul (BraIns) and Professor of Medicine at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). He holds a collaborating professorship at Tohoku University School of Medicine (Sendai, Japan), where he obtained his PhD. He completed his medical training in internal medicine and clinical neurology at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Dr. Sato is board certified in Neurology since 2002 by the Brazilian Academy of Neurology. Dr Sato has received the ACTRIMS/ECTRIMS/MSJ Award, PACTRIMS Investigator Award, BCTRIMS Gilberto Belisario Award, among others. He was a recipient of the Japanese government (Mombukagakusho) scholarship, and has received research grants from JSPS/MEXT (KAKENHI), CNPq/Brazil, FAPERGS/PPSUS/Ministry of Heath Brazil, Ichiro Kanehara foundation, TEVA pharmaceuticals and Euroimmun AG. The research interests are: 1) Clinical, imaging and immunological features of inflammatory central nervous system disorders, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD), autoimmune encephalitis; 2) Development of animal models for inflammatory CNS diseases; 3) Development of assays to detect autoantibodies in neuroimmunological disorders; 4) Research on neuroinflammation in neurological disorders