Editorial Board Member - JNND

Walter Royal
ProfessorDepartment of Neurology
University of Maryland
United States
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Walter Royal is the Director of the Maryland Center for Multiple Sclerosis Treatment and Research and a Professor in the Department of Neurology at the University Of Maryland, School Of Medicine. He is also the Research Associate Director for the VA Multiple Sclerosis Center of Excellence-East.
Dr. Walter Royal is an active investigator in the Maryland Center for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) clinical trials program and also has a laboratory which is researching immune markers of MS disease progression and mechanisms by which the activity of nuclear receptors, specifically the vitamin A and vitamin D receptors, modulate proinflammatory immune responses in MS. His research also involves studies of the viral pathogenesis of MS as well as clinical and basic science studies of the epidemiology and pathogenesis of neurocognitive impairment that occurs among individuals with human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) infection.
Other Editorial Board Members - JNND

Shengwen Calvin Li
Center for Neuroscience and Stem Cell Research
University of California-Irvine School of Medicine
United States

David Paul Richman
Department of Neurology and Center for Neuroscience
University of California
United States

Dominique M. Durand
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neurosciences
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland
United States

Yuchuan Ding
Department of Neurosurgery
Wayne State University School of Medicine
United States

Walter J. Lukiw
Neurology, Neuroscience and Ophthalmology
Louisiana State University
United States

Wei-Yen Hsu
Department of Information Engineering and Management
National Chung Cheng University
Taiwan