Timothy Vartanian, M.D., Ph.D., is a dedicated clinician, researcher and teacher. Dr. Vartanian is the Director of the Judith Jaffe Multiple Sclerosis Center at Weill Cornell Medical College and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He received his M.D. from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from 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.
Dr. Vartanian has led research teams that have made groundbreaking discoveries in central nervous system remyelination, novel mechanisms of axonal degeneration and regeneration, and mechanisms of immune mediated injury to myelin and axons in multiple sclerosis. His research interests center on regeneration of the myelin internode in multiple sclerosis, preventing axonal and neuronal injury, and defining the complicated interactions between the immune and nervous systems.
His work has been published in top peer reviewed journals including the Journal of Cell Biology, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the Journal of Neuroscience, Science, Nature, and the New England Journal of Medicine.
He is funded by the National Institutes of Health through the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Private Donors, Biotech.
He has served on grant review committees for the National Institutes of Health, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Congressionally Directed Medical Research through the Department of Defense, The Welcome Trust, and others.
