Recipient of a La Caixa Junior Leader Incoming postdoctoral fellowship for a period of three years, Dr. Carmen Tur rejoins Cemcat (Multiple Sclerosis Center of Catalonia) and the Clinical Neuroimmunology research group at VHIR, at Vall d'Hebron Campus. It is an innovative project based, as Dr. Tur explains, on "the analysis of brain magnetic resonance imaging of patients with multiple sclerosis, to predict the clinical course of the disease by exploiting the morphometric and spatial characteristics of the tissue damage that occurs in this disease". The models that Dr. Tur will apply have never been systematically explored in multiple sclerosis. "One of the tools that I will use will be artificial intelligence and we will complete it with more conventional analyses on how the damage can be distributed in the brain space", she adds. If the established parameters are useful to predict or help predict the natural history of the disease, the aim is to implement it in clinical practice in addition to current elements, in order to contribute to therapeutic decision-making based on the information provided by magnetic resonance imaging. The grant of La Caixa provides the researcher's salary for 3 years and allows the formation of a team by incorporating a pre-doctoral researcher and funding for the project. The director of Cemcat, head of the Clinical Neuroimmunology Service of Vall d'Hebron University Hospital and head of the Research Group in Clinical Neuroimmunology at VHIR Dr. Xavier Montalban, celebrates the return of Dr. Tur. "This is a successful story of talent retention trained at our house, Vall d'Hebron", says Dr. Montalban, "and as a receiving center with the most complete databases on MS, I am sure that this innovative project will achieve the success we seek".In 2006, Dr. Carmen Tur did her neurology residency at Vall d'Hebron and joined Cemcat as a fellow specializing in multiple sclerosis. From 2008 to 2010 she moved to the National Hospital for Neurology-Queen Square at University College London (UCL) for a predoctoral training stay. Since 2010 she worked at Cemcat as a researcher and neurologist, obtaining the title of Doctor of Medicine in 2010¡2. She came back to London in 2013 and studied a Master's Degree in Medical Statistics at the London School of Higiene & Tropical Medicine. From 2014 to 2020, she worked at UCL as an ECTRIMS postdoctoral fellow and neurologist.