Title: Healthy brain ageing – challenges and opportunities 

Biography: Siddharthan Chandran is Director of the UK MRC Dementia Research Institute. He graduated from Southampton Medical School, trained in neurology at Queens Square, UCL and Cambridge where he also undertook a PhD in developmental neurobiology. He holds the MacDonald Chair of Neurology, at the University of Edinburgh, is Professor of Neurology at University College London, and Visiting Faculty at the Centre for Brain Research, Indian Institute of Science, India. 

His work encompasses the use of human induced pluripotent stem cells to identify cellular phenotypes of neurodegenerative diseases (NDDs) as well as pioneering innovation in multi-arm, multi-stage platform trials for NDDs with a focus on motor neuron disease (MND) and multiple sclerosis (MS). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Medical Sciences. 

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