Areas of Research

Claudia Cantoni, PhD

Claudia Cantoni, PhD

Research Instructor, Department of Neurology

Claudia does research in Neurology, Neuro-immunology and Immunology.

David Clifford, MD

David Clifford, MD

CNND Fellowship Program Director, M & F Seay Professor of Clinical Neuropharm in Neurology

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

Anne Cross, MD

CNND Co-Director, Professor of Neurology

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

Richard Dunham, MD

A. Assistant Professor, Neurology

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.

Robyn Klein, MD, PhD

Robyn Klein, MD, PhD

CNND Director; Professor of Medicine, Pathology & Immunology, Neuroscience

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

Qingyu Li, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Genetics

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

Soe S. Mar, MD, MBBS, MRCP

Professor of Neurology

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

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

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

Laura Piccio, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology

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

Naresha Saligrama, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology

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.