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Vijay Kumar Kuchroo

Vijay Kumar Kuchroo PhD

Neurology
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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Dr. Vijay Kuchroo is the Samuel L. Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Senior Scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Co-Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, Brigham Research Institutes, Boston. Vijay Kuchroo is also an associate member of the Broad Institute and a participant in a Klarman Cell Observatory project that focuses on T cell differentiation. He was just named the Director of the newly formed Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women?s Hospital. His major research interests include autoimmune diseases - particularly the role of co-stimulation - the genetic basis of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and multiple sclerosis, and cell surface molecules and regulatory factors that regulate induction of T cell tolerance and dysfunction.

His laboratory has made several transgenic mice that serve as animal models for human multiple sclerosis. Dr. Kuchroo first described the inhibitory receptor TIM-3, which is being exploited as a target for cancer immunotherapy. He was first to describe the development of highly pathogenic Th17 cells, which has been shown to induce multiple different autoimmune diseases in humans. He has published over 325 original research papers in the filed of Immunology and a paper describing development of Th17 authored by Dr. Kuchroo has been one of the highest cited papers in Immunology.
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