Our community of collaborators consists of experts internationally recognized in their fields. Their breakthroughs include transforming what we know about how the immune system interacts with the brain, the causes of multiple sclerosis, and caring for neurological complications of HIV/AIDS.
Leadership
Robyn Klein, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Neuroimmunology & Neuroinfectious Diseases
314-286-2140 | rklein@wustl.edu
Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Immunology, Neuroscience
Department of Medicine — Division of Infectious Diseases
660 S. Euclid Ave., CB 8051
St. Louis, MO 63110
Anne Cross, MD
Co-Director, Center for Neuroimmunology & Neuroinfectious Diseases
314-362-3293 | crossa@neuro.wustl.edu
Professor of Neurology
Department of Neurology
660 S. Euclid Ave., CB 8111
St. Louis, MO 63110
David Clifford, MD
Fellowship Program Director, Center for Neuroimmunology & Neuroinfectious Diseases
M & F Seay Professor of Clinical Neuropharm in Neurology
Department of Neurology
660 S. Euclid Ave., CB 8111
St. Louis, MO 63110
Staff
Michelle Potter
Administrative Coordinator, Center for Neuroimmunology & Neuroinfectious Diseases
Email: mpotter@wustl.edu
Core members
Claudia Cantoni, PhD
Research Instructor, Department of Neurology
- Phone: 314-747-4591
- Email: claudiacantoni@wustl.edu
Claudia does research in Neurology, Neuro-immunology and Immunology.
David Clifford, MD
CNND Fellowship Program Director, M & F Seay Professor of Clinical Neuropharm in Neurology
- Phone: 314-747-8423
- Email: cliffordd@neuro.wustl.edu
Dr. Clifford is Medical Director for the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Disease (DIAN) Treatment Trial. He has been a leader in research on progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. He has served as residency program director in neurology and currently leads the Ethiopia site for the Global Scholars in Medicine of WUSTL. He has performed international research in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Thailand, Guinea Bissau, The Gambia and Senegal.
Anne Cross, MD
CNND Co-Director, Professor of Neurology
- Phone: 314-362-3293
- Email: crossa@neuro.wustl.edu
Dr. Cross is a specialist in MS care and research. Her laboratory currently focuses on advanced imaging studies of neurological diseases, imaging and blood biomarkers to predict outcomes in MS, and the role(s) of B cells in MS and related diseases. She was funded by the National MS Society in 2002 to do one of the first studies of B cell depletion in MS patients, in an “add-on” study of rituximab in 30 MS patients who were failing beta-interferons or glatiramer acetate.
Richard Dunham, MD
A. Assistant Professor, Neurology
- Phone: 314-747-8423
- Email: dunhamsr@wustl.edu
Dr. Dunham is a clinical educator with an outpatient clinic focus on investigating treatments and biomarkers for infectious and autoimmune encephalitis. Building a patient registry with longitudinal follow up of neurocognitive assessments and corresponding MRIs of the brain along with and serum/cerebrospinal fluid profiles for immunophenotypic biomarkers of disease.
Keiko Hirose, MD
Professor in Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, Speech and Communication Sciences
- Phone: 314-454-4033
- Email: hirosek@wustl.edu
Dr. Hirose’s research program focuses on innate immunity of the inner ear and its influence on hearing. The main goal of her research program is to understand the effects of the immune response to inner ear injury.
Robyn Klein, MD, PhD
CNND Director; Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Immunology, Neuroscience
- Phone: 314-286-2140
- Email: rklein@wustl.edu
Dr. Klein’s Lab is a neuroimmunology research laboratory primarily interested in defining fundamental processes of the neuroimmune system – which is structurally and cellularly distinct from the peripheral immune system – that protect neurons from infection and inflammation.
Qingyu Li, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Genetics
- Phone: 314-273-1422
- Email: qingyunli@wustl.edu
Dr. Li is broadly interested in neuroimmunology with a focus on microglial biology. The overarching goal of the Li laboratory is to gain a better understanding of microglial functions in the establishment of the nervous system, as well as how changes in these functions contribute to neurological diseases.
Soe S. Mar, MD, MBBS, MRCP
Professor of Neurology
- Phone: 314-454-6226
- Email: mars@wustl.edu
Dr. Mar’s current research efforts are directed at pediatric multiple sclerosis and other white matter diseases, pediatric migraine, HIV related neurocognitive disorders in perinatally acquired HIV and neuro infectious diseases.
Robert McKinstry, MD, PhD McKinstry, MD, PhD., FACR
William R. Orthwein Jr. & Laura Rand Orthwein Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics Senior Vice Chair & Division Chief, Diagnostic Radiology
- Phone: 314-362-7130
- Email: mckinstryb@wustl.edu
Dr. McKinstry combines his clinical interest in pediatric neuroradiology with his expertise in magnetic resonance imaging to study the impact of various insults (e.g. inflammatory, genetic, vascular, metabolic) on the developing brain.
Laura Piccio, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology
- Phone: 314-747-4591
- Email: picciol@neuro.wustl.edu
Dr. Piccio works in the MS section of Neurology, she recieved the 2008 Whitaker prize award for research in Multiple Sclerosis at the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers (CMSC).
Naresha Saligrama, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
- Phone: 314-273-8540
- Email: nareshas@wustl.edu
Research in Saligrama laboratory is focused on determining the phenotype, function, and specificity of T cells in neurological disorders. Goal is to gain novel scientific knowledge in regard to adaptive immune responses in neurological diseases that will help guide clinical practice.
Gregory Wu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurology and Pathology & Immunology
- Phone: 314-362-8452
- Email: gfwu@wustl.edu
Dr. Wu has several areas of ongoing investigation into the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS) and related diseases. The Wu lab’s main goal of research is to define the regulation of adaptive immune responses during inflammation within the central nervous system (CNS).