Autoimmunity in CNS

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.

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.

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).

Gregory Wu, MD, PhD

Gregory Wu, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurology and Pathology & Immunology

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).