An expert in regenerative neurology, Prof Siddharthan Chandran is the MacDonald Professor of Neurology, Director of Edinburgh Neuroscience and Head of Edinburgh Medical School.
Prof Chandran’s research combines clinical and laboratory research to investigate the role of cellular interplay in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
He was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018, and joined the UK DRI at Edinburgh in the same year.