Tanuja Chitnis

Chief, Division of Neuroimmunology
Department of Neurology
Mass General Brigham
Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA | USA

Dr. Chitnis is the inaugural Chief of the Division of Neuroimmunology at Mass General Brigham. She is a Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and holds the Cindy Larsen Chugg Endowed Chair in Neurology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Additionally, she serves as the the Director of the Comprehensive Longitudinal Investigation of MS at the Brigham (CLIMB) study and biorepository which has yielded over 200 publications explicating MS pathogenesis and prognostic models. To meet the need to identify new biomarkers and therapeutic targets for MS and related diseases, she created the Translational Neuroimmunology Research Center (TNRC) at the Ann Romney Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital which encompasses a neuroimmunology laboratory group, clinical research and database team and bioinformatics-analytics group, with the goal of identifying new biomarkers, algorithms, and therapeutic targets with the goal of bench to bedside translation for neuroimmunological diseases. Dr. Chitnis has led several clinical trials in MS including recent phase III trials in pediatric MS published in the New England Journal of Medicine as well as phase I-IV trials in adult multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease. She has published over 300 peer reviewed articles in the MS and neuroimmunological diseases field, and she has received funding awards from the Department of Defense, National MS Society, NIH, and other foundations to support her work.