Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Movement Disorders at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Principal Faculty at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Vikram (Vik) Khurana is Chief of the Division of Movement Disorders at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is Principal Faculty at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. His clinical and research interests relate to neurodegenerative disorders focusing on Parkinson’s disease (PD) and related dementias, and rarer disorders including multiple system atrophy (MSA) and ataxias. In 2018, he was named a Robertson Investigator of the New York Stem Cell Foundation, in 2019 a George C. Cotzias Fellow of the American Parkinson’s Disease Association and in 2020 an investigator of the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s Initiative. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the MSA Coalition.
Dr. Khurana is a medical graduate of the University of Sydney and obtained his Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard University. He completed his neurology residency at Brigham and Women’s and Massachusetts General Hospitals, and fellowship in movement disorders and ataxia at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received postdoctoral training at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (MIT), where he led some of the first studies to identify and reverse pathologies in human stem cells derived from PD patients (Science, 2013). This work has led to novel the discovery of novel drugs, currently in trial for Parkinson’s disease.
More recently, the Khurana laboratory has comprehensively mapped the consequences of misfolding of alpha-synuclein, the protein that aggregates in synucleinopathies like PD (Cell Systems 2017). These maps have shed light on disease mechanisms and novel functions for alpha-synuclein (Cell 2022 In Press). Current efforts focus on bringing stem-cell technologies toward targeted therapeutics for PD and related disorders.
Dr. Khurana has founded two biotech companies with a focus on CNS and neurodegenerative diseases.
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