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Office
Building for Transformative Medicine 10016L
60 Fenwood Road
Boston, MA 02115Phone+1 617-726-2000
Summary
- Vik Khurana is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, and a scientific co-Founder of Yumanity Therapeutics. His clinical and research interests relate to neurodegenerative movement disorders, including Parkinson's disease, multiple system atrophy and the cerebellar ataxias. He is a medical graduate of the University of Sydney, Australia, and came to Boston as a Fulbright Scholar and Merck Company Foundation Fellow in 2001, obtaining his Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard University in 2006. He completed his residency in Neurology at Brigham and Women's and Massachusetts General Hospitals, and Fellowship training in Movement Disorders and Ataxia at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Whitehead Institute/MIT with Susan Lindquist and Rudolf Jaenisch. His research efforts aim to develop novel therapies for neurodegenerative diseases by using diverse model systems including patient-derived stem cells. This work has been supported by funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the JPB Foundation, and awards from foundations including the American Brain Foundation,Parkinson's Disease Foundations and Multiple System Atrophy coalition . Vik is a member of the Global Multiple System Atrophy Roadmap Consortium and sits on the Board of the MSA Coalition. His recent research has been published in leading journals, including Science, Cell Systems and Cell.
Education & Training
- Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolFellowship, Neurology, 2010 - 2012
- Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical SchoolResidency, Neurology, 2007 - 2010
- Brigham and Women's HospitalInternship, Internal Medicine, 2006 - 2007
- Harvard UniversityPh.D., Neurobiology, 2001 - 2006
- University of Sydney Faculty of MedicineClass of 2000
Certifications & Licensure
- MA State Medical License 2010 - 2027
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Neurology
Clinical Trials
- Effect of Verdiperstat on Microglial Activation in Well-characterized MSA Patients Start of enrollment: 2020 Dec 30
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- CLEC16A in astrocytes promotes mitophagy and limits pathology in a multiple sclerosis mouse model.Atsushi Kadowaki, Michael A Wheeler, Zhaorong Li, Brian M Andersen, Hong-Gyun Lee
Nature Neuroscience. 2025-03-01 - Cholesterol-mediated Lysosomal Dysfunction inAstrocytes Promotes α-Synuclein Pathology in Human Brain Tissue.Louise A Mesentier-Louro, Camille Goldman, Alain Ndayisaba, Alice Buonfiglioli, Rikki B Rooklin
Biorxiv. 2025-02-14 - Multimodal Digital Phenotyping of Behavior in a Neurology Clinic: Development of the Neurobooth Platform and the First Two Years of Data Collection.Adonay S Nunes, Siddharth Patel, Brandon Oubre, Mainak Jas, Divya D Kulkarni
Medrxiv. 2025-02-06
Press Mentions
- Cell Model Recreates Dynamics of Alpha-Synuclein Clumping: StudyAugust 13th, 2024
- Advanced 'Parkinson's in a Dish' Model Accelerates Brain Disease ResearchJuly 29th, 2024
- A Parkinson’s ‘Game Changer,’ Backed by Michael J. Fox, Could Lead to New Diagnostics and, Someday, TreatmentsApril 12th, 2023
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Grant Support
- Investigating physiologic and pathophysiologic connections between the Parkinson's disease protein alpha-synuclein and RNA binding proteinsBRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL2023–2028
- Elucidating the Biological Differences Between Distinct Fibrillar and Non-Fibrillar Alpha-Synuclein Inclusions in Human Stem-Cell ModelsBRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL2020–2025
- Elucidating the Biological Differences Between Distinct Fibrillar and Non-Fibrillar Alpha-Synuclein Inclusions in Human Stem-Cell ModelsBRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL2020–2025
- Elucidating the Biological Differences Between Distinct Fibrillar and Non-Fibrillar Alpha-Synuclein Inclusions in Human Stem-Cell ModelsBRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL2020–2025
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