The Department of Neuroimmunology was the first Department to be fully established at the CBR in 1999 with Hans Lassmann being appointed Full Professor and Head of the Department.

Hans Lassmann is a physician and neuropathologist trained at the University of Vienna, Austria. Research within the Department focuses on brain inflammation and inflammatory diseases of the nervous system. This involves basic research on immune surveillance of the nervous system and mechanisms of immune mediated tissue injury as well as applied research on inflammatory disorders of the nervous system, such as multiple sclerosis.