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Scientific Advisory Board Tim Vartanian, M.D, Ph.D.
Kristin Ardlie, Ph.D.
Amit Bar-Or, MD, FRCP(C)
Peter Calabresi, MD
Elliot Frohman, M.D., Ph.D.
Douglas Golenbock, M.D.
Benjamin Greenberg, MD, MHS
Steven Jacobson, Ph.D.
Rip Kinkel, M.D.
Peter Lansbury, Ph.D.
Vince Macaluso, MD
Ruth Ann Marrie, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)
Michael Racke, MD
Raj Ratan, M.D., Ph.D.
Peter Riskind, M.D., Ph.D.
Saud Sadiq, M.D.
David Simon, MD, PhD
Gerald J. Sussman, Ph.D.
Tim Vartanian, M.D, Ph.D.
Arun Venkatesan, MD, PhD



Tim Vartanian, M.D., Ph.D., is a dedicated clinician, researcher and teacher. Dr. Vartanian is Chief of the Division on Demyelinating Diseases at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), holds an appointment as Senior Associate Neurologist in the Department of Neurology at BIDMC and is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Chicago and his M.D. from the Pritzker School of Medicine, also at the University of Chicago. His internship, residency, and two research fellowships were at what are among Boston's most respected major medical institutions; respectively, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, and Harvard Medical School.

His primary research interests are in the molecular basis of the axonal control of myelination, the oligodendrocyte cytoskeleton, cell shape and motility, as well as oligodendrocyte injury. He has co-authored several book chapters and has published articles in a wide array of esteemed scientific and medical journals, such as the Journal of Physical Chemistry, the Journal of Cell Biology, the Journal of Neurobiology, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Science, Nature, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

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