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Overview

Tanuja Chitnis is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States, focusing on medical research primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work extensively covers subfields such as Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Neurology, Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Rheumatology.

The primary topics of Chitnis's research include multiple sclerosis and related neurological and autoimmune disorders. The main areas of study can be summarized as:

  • Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
  • Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders
  • Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Research
  • Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research
  • Polyomavirus and related diseases
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Rheumatoid Arthritis Research and Therapies

Chitnis has published extensively, with numerous papers appearing in respected journals. Some of the recent notable publications include:

  • Diagnosis of myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease: International MOGAD Panel proposed criteria (2023, The Lancet Neurology)
  • Multiple sclerosis progression: time for a new mechanism-driven framework (2022, The Lancet Neurology)
  • Myelin-oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (2021, The Lancet Neurology)
  • How patients with multiple sclerosis acquire disability (2022, Brain)
  • Gut microbiome of multiple sclerosis patients and paired household healthy controls reveal associations with disease risk and course (2022, Cell)

The researcher frequently collaborates with other experts in the field. Regular co-authors include:

  • Howard L. Weiner
  • Brian C. Healy
  • Emmanuelle Waubant
  • Bonnie I. Glanz
  • Soe Mar

Chitnis's work is commonly published in several high-impact venues, with a significant number of publications appearing in:

  • Neurology
  • Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders
  • Multiple Sclerosis Journal
  • Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • International consensus diagnostic criteria for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders

    Dean M. Wingerchuk;Brenda Banwell;Jeffrey L. Bennett;Philippe Cabre

  • Human polymorphism at microRNAs and microRNA target sites.

    Liuqing Yang;Chunru Lin;Chunyu Jin;Joy C. Yang

  • Alterations of the human gut microbiome in multiple sclerosis

    Sushrut Jangi;Roopali Gandhi;Laura M. Cox;Ning Li

  • International Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis Study Group criteria for pediatric multiple sclerosis and immune-mediated central nervous system demyelinating disorders: revisions to the 2007 definitions

    Lauren B Krupp;Marc Tardieu;Maria Pia Amato;Brenda Banwell

  • The programmed death-1 (PD-1) pathway regulates autoimmune diabetes in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice.

    Mohammed Javeed I. Ansari;Alan D. Salama;Alan D. Salama;Tanuja Chitnis;Tanuja Chitnis;R. Neal Smith

  • Critical role of the programmed death-1 (PD-1) pathway in regulation of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

    Alan D. Salama;Tanuja Chitnis;Tanuja Chitnis;Jaime Imitola;Jaime Imitola;Mohammed Javeed I. Ansari

  • Body size and risk of MS in two cohorts of US women

    Kassandra L. Munger;Tanuja Chitnis;Alberto Ascherio

  • Myelin-oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease.

    Romain Marignier;Romain Marignier;Yael Hacohen;Alvaro Cobo-Calvo;Anne Katrin Pröbstel

  • Increased relapse rate in pediatric-onset compared with adult-onset multiple sclerosis.

    Mark P. Gorman;Brian C. Healy;Mariann Polgar-Turcsanyi;Tanuja Chitnis

  • Self-antigen tetramers discriminate between myelin autoantibodies to native or denatured protein

    Kevin C O'Connor;Katherine A McLaughlin;Philip L De Jager;Tanuja Chitnis;Tanuja Chitnis

  • Evaluation of No Evidence of Disease Activity in a 7-Year Longitudinal Multiple Sclerosis Cohort

    Dalia L. Rotstein;Brian C. Healy;Brian C. Healy;Muhammad T. Malik;Tanuja Chitnis

  • CNS inflammation and neurodegeneration.

    Tanuja Chitnis;Howard L. Weiner

  • Regulatory functions of CD8+CD28– T cells in an autoimmune disease model

    Nader Najafian;Tanuja Chitnis;Alan D. Salama;Bing Zhu

  • Demographic and clinical features of neuromyelitis optica: A review

    L Pandit;N Asgari;M Apiwattanakul;J Palace

  • Trial of Fingolimod versus Interferon Beta-1a in Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis.

    Tanuja Chitnis;Douglas L Arnold;Brenda Banwell;Wolfgang Brück

  • Demographics of pediatric-onset multiple sclerosis in an MS center population from the Northeastern United States

    T Chitnis;B Glanz;S Jaffin;B Healy

  • Smoking and disease progression in multiple sclerosis.

    Brian C. Healy;Eman N. Ali;Charles R. G. Guttmann;Tanuja Chitnis

  • Circulating microRNAs as biomarkers for disease staging in multiple sclerosis.

    Roopali Gandhi;Brian Healy;Taha Gholipour;Svetlana Egorova

  • Effect of targeted disruption of STAT4 and STAT6 on the induction of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.

    Tanuja Chitnis;Nader Najafian;Christina Benou;Alan D. Salama

  • Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders

    Jamie McDonald;Jennifer Graves;Amy Waldman;Timothy Lotze

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard L. Weiner
Howard L. Weiner Harvard University
Emmanuelle Waubant
Emmanuelle Waubant University of California, San Francisco
Bianca Weinstock-Guttman
Bianca Weinstock-Guttman University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Samia J. Khoury
Samia J. Khoury American University of Beirut
Rohit Bakshi
Rohit Bakshi Brigham and Women's Hospital
Moses Rodriguez
Moses Rodriguez Mayo Clinic
Lauren B. Krupp
Lauren B. Krupp New York University
Brenda Banwell
Brenda Banwell Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Charles R.G. Guttmann
Charles R.G. Guttmann Brigham and Women's Hospital
Philip L. De Jager
Philip L. De Jager Columbia University

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