Siddharthan Chandran

Professor

Siddharthan Chandran

  • MacDonald Professor of Neurology; Director Edinburgh Neuroscience; Head of Medical School
  • The University of Edinburgh
  • United Kingdom
  • Year elected: 2021

Types of Fellowship

  • Life Fellow

Areas of expertise

  • Neurology, Neurodegeneration, Stem cells, Glial biology, Regenerative neuroscience

BIO

Siddharthan Chandran, MacDonald Professor of Neurology at the University of Edinburgh, is an outstanding clinician-scientist and international leader in both the discovery and translational arms of regenerative neurology. By leading partnerships including with the UCL/MRC Clinical Trials Unit he has advanced multi-arm, multi-stage platform trials for neurodegenerative diseases. He founded and directs the Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, the pan-Scotland Euan MacDonald MND Centre and leads Edinburgh’s MS Society Centre of Excellence. Collectively these nucleate clinician-academic training, trial execution, and technological innovation to support patients’ needs; the latter exemplified by his founding of the SpeakUnique voice-banking company.