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Multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology

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Richard A. Rudick

Richard A. Rudick is an American neurologist specializing in multiple sclerosis, known for pivotal trials of AVONEX and TYSABRI and for directing the Cleveland Clinic's Mellen Center.

Richard M. Ransohoff

Richard M. Ransohoff is an American neurologist and neuroinflammation researcher who spent 30 years at the Cleveland Clinic and won the 2012 John Dystel Prize for multiple sclerosis research.

Robin Franklin

Robin James Milroy Franklin, born in 1962, is a British stem cell biologist known for remyelination research, formerly a Cambridge professor and now at Altos Labs.

Roland Martinꝉ

Roland Martin is a neuroimmunologist and physician-scientist known for his work on the immunology of multiple sclerosis, and professor emeritus at the University of Zurich.

Scott S. Zamvil

Scott S. Zamvil is an American neurologist and immunologist, Professor of Neurology at UCSF since 1998, known for research on immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis.

Sean J. Pittock

Sean J. Pittock (Sean Pittock) is an Irish neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who works in autoimmune neurology and led the PREVENT eculizumab trial for neuromyelitis optica.

Siddharthan Chandran

Siddharthan Chandran is a Scottish regenerative neurologist, MacDonald Professor of Neurology at the University of Edinburgh, and Director and CEO of the UK Dementia Research Institute since 2023.

Stephen L. Hauser

Stephen L. Hauser is an American neurologist and neuroimmunologist at UCSF whose B-cell research produced the first therapy of proven value for progressive multiple sclerosis, earning the 2025 Breakthrough Prize.

Tanuja Chitnis

Tanuja Chitnis is a neurologist and Harvard Medical School professor specializing in multiple sclerosis, known for establishing pediatric MS as a field and leading the PARADIGMS trial.

V. Wee Yong

V. Wee Yong, also known as Voon Wee Yong, is a neuroimmunologist and professor at the University of Calgary known for the 2017 minocycline trial delaying multiple sclerosis.

Vanda A. Lennon

Vanda A. Lennon is an Australian-born neuroimmunologist at Mayo Clinic who demonstrated that Lambert-Eaton syndrome is an antibody-mediated disorder and founded its autoimmune neurology testing service.

Xavier Montalban

Xavier Montalbán is a Spanish neurologist specializing in multiple sclerosis, director of the Multiple Sclerosis Centre of Catalonia since 2007 and a leader of the McDonald diagnostic criteria.

Yngve Olsson

Yngve Olsson is a Swedish neuropathologist who studied vascular permeability in the nervous system with fluorescent albumin tracers, working at Gothenburg, NINDS, and Uppsala University.