Hardeep Kataria, PhD

Hardeep Kataria received his PhD in Life Sciences in 2012 from India, with focus on Neuro-oncology and Neuroprotection. During his PhD, Hardeep received IBRO-APRC exchange fellowship and Japan Neuroscience society (JNS) travel award. In 2013, he joined Center for Molecular Neurobiology Hamburg (ZMNH), Germany as Postdoctoral research fellow. He worked on regenerative potential of small molecule agonists of cell adhesion molecule L1 using in vitro and in vivo functional assays.
Hardeep joined Karimi’s lab in 2015 as Postdoctoral research trainee and in 2018 became a research associate. He was a recipient of Research Manitoba/Rick Hansen Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Award (2015). Hardeep leads several projects aimed at understanding the role and mechanisms of neuroinflammation, oligodendrogenesis and remyelination in multiple sclerosis using complementary in vitro and preclinical animal models. Hardeep led and contributed to several high impact publications in Karimi's lab. Please refer to our publication page.