Tamara Vyshkina, PhD
Research Associate

Dr. Tamara Vyshkina currently works in Dr. Harris' team, studying autologous transplantation of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), and neural precursor cells (NPCs) in mouse and rat models of multiple sclerosis, as well as studying the expression of the specific transcription factors by MSCs and NPCs potentially enhancing remyelination.

Dr. Vyshkina received her PhD in Chemistry from Kiev State University, Ukraine, and her MS in Biophysics from Moscow State University, Russia. From 2003 to 2006, she worked at the MS Research & Treatment Center at Roosevelt Hospital. Her research was in the field of statistical genetics, investigating the role of CC chemokine ligands and Complex I genes in multiple sclerosis and association of marker haplotypes within chromosome 17q11 region with the disease in family-based and case-control studies. In 2001-2003 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University.

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