Staff
Violaine K. Harris, PhD
Research Scientist
Dr. Harris joined the research lab in 2004, where she has been developing cell therapy strategies to treat multiple sclerosis. In particular, Dr. Harris and her team have investigated adult stem cells from the bone marrow an autologous source of cells capable of repair and...
Massimiliano Cristofanilli, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist
The biological basis of progressive MS, both secondary (SPMS) and primary (PPMS) is poorly understood pathologically and is generally treatment unresponsive. It is a difficult problem to investigate because the widely used animal model of MS, experimental autoimmune...
Andre Muller, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist
Dr. Müller is an assistant research scientist at Tisch MS. Dr. Müller has a diploma in technical biology from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, and obtained his doctorate in neuroimmunology from the University of Regensburg, Germany in 2005. His training also...
Fozia Mir, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist
Dr. Fozia Mir joined the laboratory in March 2011, and is investigating oxidative stress and lipid peroxidation in multiple sclerosis. There is growing evidence of the involvement of oxidative stress to brain damage in multiple sclerosis (MS). Lipids (fats) are the most...
Ying Liu, MD, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist
Ying Liu is a neuropathologist specializing in the pathological changes that occur in central nervous system diseases, including MS. She obtained her MD in 1998 from Taishan Medical College, China, and her PhD in neuropathology in 2003 from Fudan University, China where she...
Irene Jarchum, PhD
Research Associate
Irene Jarchum received her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where she studied autoreactive T cells in Type 1 diabetes. She then moved into the field of mucosal inflammation and infection as a postdoctoral fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering...
Jerry Lin, BS
Senior Staff Associate
Jerry Lin has worked with Dr. Sadiq since 1996, where he worked as a research assistant at Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital under Dr. Sadiq and Dr. Norman Latov. As a research associate, he helped establish Dr. Sadiq’s research program at the MS Research &...
Tamara Vyshkina, PhD
Research Associate
Dr. Vyshkina currently works in Dr. Harris’ team studying therapeutic use of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell-derived neural progenitors (MSC-NPs) as a strategy for repair and regeneration in MS. Dr. Vyshkina has developed cell culture and quality control procedures for the...
