Siddharthan Chandran

Prof Siddharthan Chandran

Director & CEO

Dissecting a genetic cause of ALS and FTD and identifying ways to help protect neurons

Condition

Motor neuron disease/ALS, Frontotemporal dementia

Biography

Professor Siddharthan Chandran is Director of the UK Dementia Research Institute, and an internationally leading expert in neurodegenerative diseases. Prof Chandran is a practising neurologist and scientist working at the forefront of the emerging discipline of Regenerative Neurology, renowned for his work in motor neuron disease (MND) and MS that combines laboratory and clinical research with a particular focus on human / patient stem cells for his discovery science research. Alongside his UK DRI research, Prof Chandran is Director of the Euan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neuron Disease Research and the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Medical Sciences.

News

Key publications

Cell genomics
Published
Mechanism-free repurposing of drugs for C9orf72-related ALS/FTD using large-scale genomic data
Authors
Sara Saez-Atienzar, Cleide Dos Santos Souza, Ruth Chia, Selina N Beal, Ileana Lorenzini, Ruili Huang, Jennifer Levy, Camelia Burciu, Jinhui Ding, J Raphael Gibbs, Ashley Jones, Ramita Dewan, Viviana Pensato, Silvia Peverelli, Lucia Corrado, Joke J F A van Vugt, Wouter van Rheenen, Ceren Tunca, Elif Bayraktar, Menghang Xia, International ALS Genomics Consortium, ITALSGEN Consortium, SLAGEN Consortium, Project MinE ALS Sequencing Consortium, Alfredo Iacoangeli, Aleksey Shatunov, Cinzia Tiloca, Nicola Ticozzi, Federico Verde, Letizia Mazzini, Kevin Kenna, Ahmad Al Khleifat, Sarah Opie-Martin, Flavia Raggi, Massimiliano Filosto, Stefano Cotti Piccinelli, Alessandro Padovani, Stella Gagliardi, Maurizio Inghilleri, Alessandra Ferlini, Rosario Vasta, Andrea Calvo, Cristina Moglia, Antonio Canosa, Umberto Manera, Maurizio Grassano, Jessica Mandrioli, Gabriele Mora, Christian Lunetta, Raffaella Tanel, Francesca Trojsi, Patrizio Cardinali, Salvatore Gallone, Maura Brunetti, Daniela Galimberti, Maria Serpente, Chiara Fenoglio, Elio Scarpini, Giacomo P Comi, Stefania Corti, Roberto Del Bo, Mauro Ceroni, Giuseppe Lauria Pinter, Franco Taroni, Eleonora Dalla Bella, Enrica Bersano, Charles J Curtis, Sang Hyuck Lee, Raymond Chung, Hamel Patel, Karen E Morrison, Johnathan Cooper-Knock, Pamela J Shaw, Gerome Breen, Richard J B Dobson, Clifton L Dalgard, American Genome Center, Sonja W Scholz, Ammar Al-Chalabi, Leonard H van den Berg, Russell McLaughlin, Orla Hardiman, Cristina Cereda, Gianni Sorarù, Sandra D'Alfonso, Siddharthan Chandran, Suvankar Pal, Antonia Ratti, Cinzia Gellera, Kory Johnson, Tara Doucet-O'Hare, Nicholas Pasternack, Tongguang Wang, Avindra Nath, Gabriele Siciliano, Vincenzo Silani, Ayşe Nazlı Başak, Jan H Veldink, William Camu, Jonathan D Glass, John E Landers, Adriano Chiò, Rita Sattler, Christopher E Shaw, Laura Ferraiuolo, Isabella Fogh, Bryan J Traynor
Mechanism-free repurposing of drugs for C9orf72-related ALS/FTD using large-scale genomic data
Nature communications
Published
Plekhg5 controls the unconventional secretion of Sod1 by presynaptic secretory autophagy
Authors
Amy-Jayne Hutchings, Bita Hambrecht, Alexander Veh, Neha Jadhav Giridhar, Abdolhossein Zare, Christina Angerer, Thorben Ohnesorge, Maren Schenke, Bhuvaneish T Selvaraj, Siddharthan Chandran, Jared Sterneckert, Susanne Petri, Bettina Seeger, Michael Briese, Christian Stigloher, Thorsten Bischler, Andreas Hermann, Markus Damme, Michael Sendtner, Patrick Lüningschrör
Plekhg5 controls the unconventional secretion of Sod1 by presynaptic secretory autophagy
The Lancet. Neurology
Published
Safety and efficacy of memantine and trazodone versus placebo for motor neuron disease (MND SMART): stage two interim analysis from the first cycle of a phase 3, multiarm, multistage, randomised, adaptive platform trial
Authors
Suvankar Pal, Jeremy Chataway, Robert Swingler, Malcolm R Macleod, Neil O Carragher, Giles Hardingham, Bhuvaneish Thangaraj Selvaraj, Colin Smith, Charis Wong, Judith Newton, Dawn Lyle, Amy Stenson, Rachel S Dakin, Amarachi Ihenacho, Shuna Colville, Arpan R Mehta, Nigel Stallard, James R Carpenter, Richard A Parker, Catriona Keerie, Christopher J Weir, Bruce Virgo, Stevie Morris, Nicola Waters, Beverley Gray, Donald MacDonald, Euan MacDonald, Mahesh K B Parmar, Siddharthan Chandran, MND SMART Investigators
Safety and efficacy of memantine and trazodone versus placebo for motor neuron disease (MND SMART): stage two interim analysis from the first cycle of a phase 3, multiarm, multistage, randomised, adaptive platform trial
Lancet Neurol
Published
Safety and efficacy of memantine and trazodone versus placebo for motor neuron disease (MND SMART): stage two interim analysis from the first cycle of a phase 3, multiarm, multistage, randomised, adaptive platform trial.
Authors
Suvankar Pal, Jeremy Chataway, Robert Swingler, Malcolm R Macleod, Neil O Carragher, Giles Hardingham, Bhuvaneish Thangaraj Selvaraj, Colin Smith, Charis Wong, Judith Newton, Dawn Lyle, Amy Stenson, Rachel S Dakin, Amarachi Ihenacho, Shuna Colville, Arpan R Mehta, Nigel Stallard, James R Carpenter, Richard A Parker, Catriona Keerie, Christopher J Weir, Bruce Virgo, Stevie Morris, Nicola Waters, Beverley Gray, Donald MacDonald, Euan MacDonald, Mahesh K B Parmar, Siddharthan Chandran,
Safety and efficacy of memantine and trazodone versus placebo for motor neuron disease (MND SMART): stage two interim analysis from the first cycle of a phase 3, multiarm, multistage, randomised, adaptive platform trial.

Chandran Lab

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Chandran Lab
Human stem cell-derived myelinating oligodendrocyte can be seen with many myelinating processes wrapped around unstained neurons