Neurology Research Programs

The Department of Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital is a group of multidisciplinary biomedical research laboratories which has its central objective in the application of a wide range of current biological methods to the elucidation of the pathogenesis and treatment of certain chronic, unsolved neurological diseases: multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson’s Disease. In addition to clinically-related research many of the laboratories have an additional focus directed at understanding basic human and animal immunology.

Research Laboratories

Alzheimer's Disease

• Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment
• Oleg Butovsky, PhD
• Ulf Dettmer, PhD
• Cynthia A. Lemere, PhD
• Gregory Petsko, PhD
• Jie Shen, PhD
• Tracy L. Young-Pearse, PhD

Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases

Ataxia/Cerebellar Ataxia

• Vikram (Vik) Khurana, MD, PhD

Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Susanna B. Mierau, MD, PhD

Brain Tumors

• Tracy Batchelor, MD, MPH
• Anna Krichevsky, PhD
• Humsa Venkatesh, PhD

Evergrande Center

Genomic Research

• Martin Hemberg, PhD
• William R. Renthal, MD, PhD
• Clemens R. Scherzer, MD

Pain and Headache

• William R. Renthal, MD, PhD

Immune-Mediated Disorders

• Ana Anderson, PhD
• Rohit Bakshi, MD
• Oleg Butovsky, PhD
• Tanuja Chitnis, MD
• Vijay Kuchroo, DVM, PhD
• Roni Nowarski, PhD
• Francisco Javier Quintana, PhD
• Howard L. Weiner, MD, Co-Director

Multiple Sclerosis

• Ana Anderson, PhD
• Rohit Bakshi, MD
• Oleg Butovsky, PhD
• Tanuja Chitnis, MD
• Vijay Kuchroo, DVM, PhD
• Howard L. Weiner, MD, Co-Director

Multiple System Atrophy

• Vikram (Vik) Khurana, MD, PhD

Neurobehavioral Research

• Barbara Caldarone, PhD

Neurodegenerative Disease

• Please see listings under Alzheimer's Disease, Ataxia, Multiple System Atrophy, Parkinson's Disease
• See also Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases

Neuro Pharmacology

• Laboratory for Drug Discovery in Neurodegeneration (LDDN)

Parkinson's Disease

• Vikram (Vik) Khurana, MD, PhD
• Gregory Petsko, PhD
• Clemens R. Scherzer, MD
• Dennis J. Selkoe, MD, Co-Director
• Jie Shen, PhD