Xavier Montalban Gairín I am Chair of the Department of Neurology since 2012 and director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Catalonia (Cemcat) since 2007 at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital. I am the head of the Neuroimmunology Research Group at Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) since 1995. I am Professor of Neurology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) since 2006 and at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) since 2021. Institutions of which they are part Head of group Clinical Neuroimmunology Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca Neurology General Hospital Director Multiple Sclerosis Centre of Catalonia LinkedIn Twitter Orcid Email Xavier Montalban Gairín LinkedIn Twitter Orcid Email Institutions of which they are part Head of group Clinical Neuroimmunology Vall Hebron Institut de Recerca Neurology General Hospital Director Multiple Sclerosis Centre of Catalonia I am Chair of the Department of Neurology since 2012 and director of the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Catalonia (Cemcat) since 2007 at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital. I am the head of the Neuroimmunology Research Group at Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) since 1995. I am Professor of Neurology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) since 2006 and at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) since 2021.
I obtained my MD (1983) and PhD (1990) from UAB, and I completed my postgraduate fellowship at St. Thomas' Hospital and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. I obtained a Diploma in Comprehensive of Healthcare Institutions Management from ESADE (2005). In addition to the positions I currently hold, between 2017 and 2020 I served as Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Neurology at the University of Toronto and as Director of the MS Center at St Michael's Hospital in the same city. Since January 2023 I am the chair of the International Advisory Committee on Clinical Trials in Multiple Sclerosis sponsored by ECTRIMS and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS), one of the most influential Committee in MS worldwide. Regarding other leadership roles I am past President (2014-2016) and current Honorary Member of the Council of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS). I’m also Board Member of the European Charcot Foundation, as well as serving on numerous local, national and international boards and committees. My scientific production acrues over 800 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals, amounting? more than 52,000 citations and a Scopus H-Index of 101. Over the last consecutive five years I have ranked among the Clarivate most cited researchers. I have been the Principal Investigator (PI) or Collaborator in more than 35 competitive Projects and have participated as PI in more than 150 clinical trials. Of Note, I am the recipient of the 2022 John Dystel Prize for MS Research, awarded jointly by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) and the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). I’m the winner of the 2023 Charcot Award granted by the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF), which recognises a lifetime of achievement in outstanding research into understanding and treating MS.
Projects Función de las proteínas de choque técnico (HSP, heat shock protein)-70 en la patogenia de la esclerosis múltiple IP: Xavier Montalban Gairín Collaborators: Carmen Espejo Ruiz, Miriam Izquierdo Sans Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III Funding: 109804.5 Reference: MS07/00146 Duration: 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2013 REEM - Red Española de Esclerosis Múltiple IP: Xavier Montalban Gairín Collaborators: Carlos Nos Llopis, Sunny Malhotra Sareen, Jaume Sastre Garriga, Jordi Rio Izquierdo, Fco. Javier Aymerich Martínez, Ingrid Galán Cartaña, Rosalia Horno Ocaña, Manuel Comabella Lopez, Carmen Tur Gomez, Herena Eixarch Ahufinger, Montserrat Moreno Sánchez, Alex Rovira Cañellas, Mar Tintore Subirana, M Jesus Arevalo Navines, Dunia Muñoz Valdivielso, Carmen Espejo Ruiz, Angela Vidal Jordana, Joaquin Castillo Justribo, Mireia Castillo Juarez, Nicolás Miguel Fissolo Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III Funding: 364373.77 Reference: RD07/0060/0020 Duration: 01/01/2008 - 31/12/2014 Espectroscopia por RM de protón e imagen de transferencia de magnetización en el estudio de primeros episodios sugestivos de Esclerosis Múltiple. IP: Espectroscopia por RM de protón e imagen de transferencia de magnetización en el estudio de primeros episodios sugestivos de Esc Collaborators: Alex Rovira Cañellas, Mar Tintore Subirana, Xavier Montalban Gairín Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III Funding: 40940 Reference: PI020971 Duration: 06/11/2002 - 31/12/2005 Estudio de la Heterogeneidad de la Esclerosis Múltiple Remitente-Recurrente Mediante Resonancia Magnética y Perfiles de Expresión Génica IP: Xavier Montalban Gairín Collaborators: Jordi Rio Izquierdo, Alex Rovira Cañellas Funding agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III Funding: 150040 Reference: PI061334 Duration: 01/01/2007 - 30/06/2010 Pagination First page « Previous page ‹ … Page 8 Page 9 Current page 10 Page 11 Page 12 … Next page › Last page »
