Dr Sara Collorone

Senior clinical research fellow & consultant neurologist
University College London & Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr. Sara Collorone is a Neurologist specialised in multiple sclerosis. She works as a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the NMR Research Unit, Queen Square MS Centre. Her research focus on the use of advanced neuroimaging to study relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis pathogenetic processes at the onset of the disease, the clinically isolated syndrome (CIS). Techniques used include advanced diffusion models (NODDI), sodium imaging, macromolecular tissue volume (MTV), quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM), and cortical structural connectivity. She has also a profound interest in the impact of neuro-inflammatory disorders on the visual system.
She collaborates with different international consortiums, including Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Multiple Sclerosis (MAGNIMS), International Multiple Sclerosis Visual System Consortium (IMSVISUAL), and International Women in Multiple Sclerosis (iWiMS).
She is a Review Editor on the Editorial Board of Clinical Neuroimaging (specialty section of Frontiers in Neuroimaging).

She also works as a Consultant Neurologist at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Luton, UK.

She has worked as a clinical fellow in the Queen Square MS Centre, UCLH, and Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Ciccarelli and Prof. Toosy. After being awarded an ECTRIMS-MAGNIMS Fellowship in 2016 she started a PhD in Neuroscience at the Faculty of Brain Sciences, which was awarded in November 2020.