This year's Sobek Research Award went to our members Martin Kerschensteiner, Director of the Institute for Clinical Neuroimmunology at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, and Thomas Korn, Deputy Director of the Neurological Clinic at the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Director of the Institute for Experimental Neuroimmunology at TUM. The Sobek Research Prize honors groundbreaking scientific work in the field of multiple sclerosis.