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IMAGE: The 2021 John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research goes to Vijay K. Kuchroo, DVM, PhD, the Samuel Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, for outstanding research contributions...
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Credit: Brigham and Women's Hospital
NEW YORK, April 13, 2021 -- Vijay K. Kuchroo, DVM, PhD, the Samuel Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research.
A graduate of Veterinary Medicine from the College of Veterinary Medicine in Hisar, India, who earned a PhD in pathology at the University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia, Kuchroo is Senior Scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Co-director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, Brigham Research Institute, Boston. He is a member of the Broad Institute, and a participant in a Klarman Cell Observatory project that focuses on T cell differentiation and is the founding director of the Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital.