Siddharthan Chandran, MacDonald Professor of Neurology at the University of Edinburgh, is an outstanding clinician-scientist and international leader in both the discovery and translational arms of regenerative neurology.
By leading partnerships including with the UCL/MRC Clinical Trials Unit he has advanced multi-arm, multi-stage platform trials for neurodegenerative diseases. He founded and directs the Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, the pan-Scotland Euan MacDonald MND Centre and leads Edinburgh’s MS Society Centre of Excellence. Collectively these nucleate clinician-academic training, trial execution, and technological innovation to support patients’ needs; the latter exemplified by his founding of the SpeakUnique voice-banking company.