The Khoury Lab focuses on understanding the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis with the hope of

Improving existing treatments and finding new therapeutic strategies for this debilitating disease.

 

Specifically our Research Goals are as follows:

  • Induction and maintenance of tolerance toward self-antigens
  • Prevention of demyelination, oligodendrocyte cell death, axonal degeneration and neuronal dysfunction
  • Promotion of regeneration and remyelination of axons, cell replacement and self repair.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SAVE THE DATE: SPECIAL AUTOIMMUNITY SYMPOSIUM

 

Future Directions in the Treatment of Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders

 

Saturday, June 14, 2008

8:30AM – 5:00PM

The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center

at Harvard Medical School

NRB Amphitheater, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Focus

 

 

 

 

January 11, 2008:

Appointments to New and Named Professorships

The following faculty members were appointed to a full professorship in June and July:

Samia Khoury
Professor of Neurology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Khoury’s laboratory investigates the mechanisms of tolerance in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), with particular interest in the T cell costimulatory pathways, and investigates the interactions between the immune system and endogenous neural stem cells. She developed and directs the Clinical Immunology Laboratory at the BWH Center for Neurologic Diseases, which specializes in biomarker development for multiple sclerosis.  Khoury is also the principal investigator of an NIH Autoimmunity Center of Excellence.

February 22, 2008:

Honors and Advances

•Samia Khoury, HMS Professor of Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and co-director of the Partners Multiple Sclerosis Center, was awarded the 2007 Kuwait Prize for Sciences by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences for her work in immunology.  The award ceremony will take place in December 2008 in Kuwait.

http://www.kfas.com/