Vijay Kuchroo

Biography

Dr. Vijay K. Kuchroo as an additional independent director to Biocon's Board. Dr. Kuchroo is the Samuel L. Wasserstrom Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Senior Scientist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Co-Director of the Center for Infection and Immunity, Brigham Research Institutes, Boston. He is also an associate member of the Broad Institute and a participant in a Klarman Cell Observatory project that focuses on T-cell differentiation. He has just been named the Director of the newly formed Evergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. 

Research Interest

Dr Kuchroo's major research interests include autoimmune diseases, particularly the role of co-stimulation - the genetic basis of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis & multiple sclerosis, cell surface molecules and regulatory factors that regulate induction of T-cell tolerance and dysfunction. He was the first to describe the development of highly pathogenic Th17 cells, which have been shown to induce multiple different autoimmune diseases in humans. Dr. Kuchroo was also the first to describe the inhibitory receptor TIM-3, which is being exploited as a target for cancer immunotherapy. His laboratory has also made several transgenic mice that serve as animal models for human multiple sclerosis.