Elected: 2018
Discipline: Clinical Sciences
Professor Siddharthan Chandran
Dean of Clinical Medicine, Head of Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh
Professor Siddharthan Chandran’s research, which combines laboratory and clinical programmes, is in the emerging medical discipline of Regenerative Neurology. His particular expertise is in the use of human/patient stem cells to model aspects of brain diseases across the life-course, as well as early-proof-of-concept clinical trials. Siddharthan is also the Director of The Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic and the Euan MacDonald Centre at the University of Edinburgh.