Dr. Ntranos is currently starting his neuroimmunology fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Athens in Greece, after which he joined Dr. Peter Calabresi’s lab at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral research fellowship in neuroimmunology. At Johns Hopkins, Dr. Ntranos was studying the immunomodulatory effects of fingolimod in cytotoxic T cells. His work on fingolimod was awarded the Whitaker prize for the best platform presentation at ACTRIMS in 2013. He then continued his training in neurology at Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was nominated Chief Resident during his last year of residency. Supported by an NINDS R25 grant, Dr Ntranos joined Dr. Patrizia Casaccia’s lab at Mount Sinai, where he has been studying novel strategies for myelin repair in multiple sclerosis. As a Leon Levy fellow, his research is going to focus on modifying the way oligodendrocytes read the epigenetic code to shift their phenotype towards myelin repair.
