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Vanda A. Lennon

Vanda A. Lennon

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Best Female Scientists
2025

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Best Female Scientists

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125
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70296
World Ranking
432
National Ranking
258

Medicine

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129
Citations
73434
World Ranking
2557
National Ranking
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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Vanda A. Lennon is affiliated with the Mayo Clinic in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on neurology and related subfields. Their research incorporates investigations into autoimmune neurological disorders, neuroinflammation, and mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration.

The main fields of study in which Lennon is active include:

  • Medicine

With specialization in several subfields, their work covers:

  • Neurology
  • Pathology and Forensic Medicine
  • Molecular Biology
  • Immunology
  • Epidemiology

The primary research topics addressed by Lennon comprise:

  • Autoimmune Neurological Disorders and Treatments
  • Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma
  • Peripheral Neuropathies and Disorders
  • Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
  • Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration Mechanisms
  • Cellular transport and secretion
  • Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research

Lennon has published scientific papers in several prominent venues, including:

  • Neurology
  • Mayo Clinic Proceedings
  • Annals of Neurology
  • JAMA Neurology
  • Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation

Some of their recent notable papers are:

  • Steroid-sparing maintenance immunotherapy for MOG-IgG associated disorder, 2020, Neurology
  • Expanded Clinical Phenotype, Oncological Associations, and Immunopathologic Insights of Paraneoplastic Kelch-like Protein-11 Encephalitis, 2020, JAMA Neurology
  • Neurologic autoimmunity and immune checkpoint inhibitors, 2020, Neurology
  • Astrocyte-microglia interaction drives evolving neuromyelitis optica lesion, 2020, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • The complement C3-C3aR pathway mediates microglia-astrocyte interaction following status epilepticus, 2020, Glia

Lennon's frequent collaborators include:

  • Andrew McKeon
  • Sean J. Pittock
  • Divyanshu Dubey
  • Αναστασία Ζεκερίδου
  • Eoin P. Flanagan

Best Publications

  • Tumor-associated B7-H1 promotes T-cell apoptosis: a potential mechanism of immune evasion

    Haidong Dong;Scott E. Strome;Diva R. Salomao;Hideto Tamura

  • A serum autoantibody marker of neuromyelitis optica : distinction from multiple sclerosis

    Vanda A Lennon;Dean M Wingerchuk;Thomas J Kryzer;Sean J Pittock

  • Revised diagnostic criteria for neuromyelitis optica

    D. M. Wingerchuk;V. A. Lennon;S. J. Pittock;C. F. Lucchinetti

  • The spectrum of neuromyelitis optica

    Dean M Wingerchuk;Vanda A Lennon;Claudia F Lucchinetti;Sean J Pittock

  • IgG marker of optic-spinal multiple sclerosis binds to the aquaporin-4 water channel.

    Vanda A. Lennon;Thomas J. Kryzer;Sean J. Pittock;A.S. Verkman

  • Antibody to acetylcholine receptor in myasthenia gravis Prevalence, clinical correlates, and diagnostic value

    Jon M. Lindstrom;Marjorie E. Seybold;Vanda A. Lennon;Senga Whittingham

  • Pattern-specific loss of aquaporin-4 immunoreactivity distinguishes neuromyelitis optica from multiple sclerosis

    Shanu F. Roemer;Joseph E. Parisi;Vanda A. Lennon;Eduardo E. Benarroch

  • Neuromyelitis optica brain lesions localized at sites of high aquaporin 4 expression.

    Sean J. Pittock;Brian G. Weinshenker;Claudia F. Lucchinetti;Dean M. Wingerchuk

  • Brain abnormalities in neuromyelitis optica.

    Sean J. Pittock;Vanda A. Lennon;Karl Krecke;Dean M. Wingerchuk

  • Neuromyelitis optica and non organ-specific autoimmunity.

    Sean J. Pittock;Vanda A. Lennon;Jerome de Seze;Patrick Vermersch

  • Neuromyelitis optica IgG predicts relapse after longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis.

    Brian G. Weinshenker;Dean M. Wingerchuk;Sandra Vukusic;Linda Linbo

  • Autoimmune encephalitis epidemiology and a comparison to infectious encephalitis.

    Divyanshu Dubey;Sean J. Pittock;Cecilia R. Kelly;Andrew McKeon

  • Autoantibodies to ganglionic acetylcholine receptors in autoimmune autonomic neuropathies

    Steven Vernino;Phillip A. Low;Robert D. Fealey;John D. Stewart

  • CRMP-5 neuronal autoantibody: marker of lung cancer and thymoma-related autoimmunity.

    Zhiya Yu;Thomas J. Kryzer;Guy E. Griesmann;Kwang Kuk Kim

  • Calcium-Channel Antibodies in the Lambert–Eaton Syndrome and Other Paraneoplastic Syndromes

    Vanda A. Lennon;Thomas J. Kryzer;Guy E. Griesmann;Padraig E. O'Suilleabhain

  • Steroid-Responsive Encephalopathy Associated With Autoimmune Thyroiditis

    Pablo Castillo;Bryan Woodruff;Richard Caselli;Steven Vernino

  • Paraneoplastic and oncologic profiles of patients seropositive for type 1 antineuronal nuclear autoantibodies

    Claudia F. Lucchinetti;David W. Kimmel;Vanda A. Lennon

  • Serologic diagnosis of NMO: A multicenter comparison of aquaporin-4-IgG assays

    P.J. Waters;A. McKeon;M.I. Leite;S. Rajasekharan

  • Mechanism of Intravenous Immune Globulin Therapy in Antibody-Mediated Autoimmune Diseases

    Zhiya Yu;Vanda A. Lennon

  • Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome: The Mayo Clinic Experience

    Mark J. Thieben;Paola Sandroni;David M. Sletten;Lisa M. Benrud-Larson

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean J. Pittock
Sean J. Pittock Mayo Clinic
Andrew McKeon
Andrew McKeon Mayo Clinic
Joseph E. Parisi
Joseph E. Parisi Mayo Clinic
Moses Rodriguez
Moses Rodriguez Mayo Clinic
Jon Lindstrom
Jon Lindstrom University of Pennsylvania
Phillip A. Low
Phillip A. Low Mayo Clinic

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