IDDRC Investigators
Anne B. Arnett, PhD
Scientist, Division of Developmental Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital; Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and related neurodevelopmental disorders
Alan Beggs, PhD
Director, The Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research; Associate Director, IDDRC, Boston Children's Hospital; Sir Edwin and Lady Manton Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
Genetics of rare neurodevelopmental disease.
Larry Benowitz, PhD
Neurosurgical Innovation and Research Endowed Professor, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Neurosurgery and Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School
Rewiring of neural connections after brain injury
Olaf Bodamer, MD, PhD
Associate Chief, Division of Genetics & Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
Disorders of transcriptional regulation.
Chinfei Chen, MD, PhD
Research Associate in Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Neurobiology; synaptic and circuit plasticity in neurodevelopment disorders.
Maya Chopra, MBBS, FRACP
Director of Translational Genomic Medicine, RSZ-TNC, Boston Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Discovery and delineation of new and emerging rare genetic neurodevelopmental syndromes, evaluation of underlying mechanisms to inform therapeutic development.
Wendy Chung, MD, PhD
Chair of Pediatrics
We study the genetic basis of human disease and how to implement information about genetics in medicine.
Alexander Cohen, MD, PhD
Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Identifying treatment targets for symptoms in Autism Spectrum Disorder by studying cohorts with lesion-induced symptoms.
Sandeep Robert Datta, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Transformation of information about ethnologically-relevant cues into naturalistic patterns of action.
Michael Tri H. Do, PhD
Research Associate, Boston Children's Hospital, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Regulation of physiology and behavior by light.
Min Dong, PhD
Research Associate in Urology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor in Urology, Harvard Medical School.
Membrane trafficking in neurons and bacterial neurotoxins.
Susan Dymecki, MD, PhD
Professor of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute; Director, Biological and Biomedical Sciences PhD Program, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School.
Developmental and molecular effects on neural circuit development and function.
Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Translational research in childhood-onset movement disorders
Elizabeth Engle, MD
Professor, Neurology and Ophthalmology, Havard Medical School; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Senior Research Associate, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Senior Research Associate, Harvard Medical School.
Cranial motor neuron an axon development.
Michela Fagiolini, PhD
Research Associate in Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital; Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Circuit dissection and translational biomarkers of neurodevelopment disorders.
Susan Faja, PhD
Research Associate, Boston Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School
Clinical neuroscience of autism and neurodevelopmental disorders
Brielle Ferguson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Genetics and Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms of Attention in Health and Disease
Anne Fulton, MD
Ophthalmologist and Director, Pediatric Medical Retinal Service, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School.
Human retinal development, normal and abnormal.
David Ginty, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Associate Director of the Harvard Program in Neuroscience; Edward R. and Anne G. Lefler Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.
Somatosensation in health and disease.
David Glahn, PhD
Associate Chief for Research, Department of Psychiatry; Director, Tommy Fuss Center for Neuropsychiatric Disease Research; Director, Early Psychosis Investigation Center (EPICenter); Director, Neuropsychiatric Genetics Program (NGP); Endowed chair in Behavioral Science Research, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.
Psychiatric and imaging genetics.
Lisa Goodrich, PhD
Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.
Genetic Dissection of neural circuit assembly and function.
P. Ellen Grant, MD
Director, Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
Fetal neonatal neuroimaging combining MRI, MEG and NIRS to study brain development.
Michael Greenberg, PhD
Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology, Chair, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.
Experience-dependent neural circuit development.
Chenghua Gu, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.
Molecular mechanisms underlying the blood brain-barrier and neuromuscular coupling.
Emanuela Gussoni, PhD
Assistant in Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
Muscular dystrophies and downstream mechanisms resulting from primary losss of protein function.
Xi He, PhD
Research Associate, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Early nervous system development, cell-cell communications.
Zhigang He, PhD, BM
Research Associate, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School.
Axon regeneration and function recovery after brain and spinal cord injury.
Takao Hensch, PhD
Research Associate in Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University; Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Critical periods in brain development.
Jeffrey Holt, PhD
Research Associate in Otolaryngology and Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Otolaryngology and of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Molecular basis of sensory signals in hearing and deafness.
Pascal Kaeser, MD
Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.
Mechanisms of neurotransmitter secretion.
Dong (a.k.a. Don) Kong, PhD, PhD
Research Associate in Pediatrics, Boston Children’s Hospital Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Affiliated Faculty, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children’s Hospital Associate Member, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Neural Circuitry and Synaptic Plasticity of Neuron-Metabolism
Louis Kunkel, PhD
Director, Genomics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
Pathogenesis and genetics of muscular dystrophies.
Maria Lehtinen, PhD
Robertson Investigator, New York Stem Cell Foundation; Hannah C. Kinney, MD, Chair, Pediatric Pathology Research, Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School.
Choroid plexus-cerebrospinal fluid-based signaling in the nervous system.
April Levin, MD
Assistant, Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Neural network function in neurodevelopment disorders.
Stephen Liberles, PhD
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School.
Internal and external senses.
Jonathan Lipton, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Circadian rhythms and sleep in neurological health and disease.
Rebekah Mannix, MD, MPH
Senior Associate Physician in Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
Use of traumatic brain injury models to develop new biomarkers of injury and recovery.
Maitreyi Mazumdar, MD, MPH
Associate, Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor in Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Influence of environmental factors, including chemicals and diet, on the developing nervous system.
Charles Nelson, PhD
Research Director, Division of Developmental Medicine; Richard David Scott Chair in Pediatric Developmental Medicine Research; Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
Cognitive neuroscience.
Jane Newburger, MD, MPH
Associate Cardiologist-in-Chief, Academic Affairs; Director, Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program; Director, Kawasaki Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Commonwealth Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
Kawasaki disease, neurologic outcomes of congenital heart disease.
Heather Olson, MD
Assistant in Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Clinical research in epilepsy genetics and CDKL5 deficiency disorder.
Lauren Orefice, PhD
Assistant, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School.
Development, function and dysfunction of somatosensory systems.
Phillip L. Pearl, MD
Director, Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology, Boston Children's Hospital; William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Inherited metabolic epilepsies.
Scott Pomeroy, MD, PhD
Past Chairman, Dept of Neurology; Bronson Crothers Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Co-director, IDDRC.
Molecular and cellular biology of brain tumors.
Lisa Prock, MD, MPH
Associate Chief, Division of Developmental Medicine, and Director, Developmental Medicine Center, Boston Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
Clinical trials in individuals with neurodevelopment disorders.
Meenakshi Rao, MD, PhD
Attending Physician, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
Enteric neurobiology in health and disease.
Caitlin Rollins, MD
Director, Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program; Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Cardiac neurodevelopment.
Paul Rosenberg, MD, PhD
Senior Associate, Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital; Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Molecular Mechanisms of brain injury.
Alexander Rotenberg, MD, PhD
Director, Neuromodulation Program; Associate, Department of Neurology; Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Noninvasive brain stimulation, neurobiology, neuromodulation.
Mustafa Sahin, MD, PhD
Neurologist-in-Chief, Dept. of Neurology; Managing Director, Rosamund Stone Zander Translational Neuroscience Center; Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Co-director IDDRC.
Axon development and neurologic disease.
Catherine L. Salussolia, MD, PhD
Attending, Epilepsy Center, Boston Children's Hospital; Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Tuberous Sclerosis Associated Epilepsy, Epilepsy Genetics
Thomas Schwarz, PhD
Research Associate in Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.
Mitochondrial dynamics, neuronal cell biology.
Rosalind Segal, MD, PhD
Associate in Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital; Chair, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Professor of Neurobiology & Dean for Graduate Education, Harvard Medical School.
Axon biology: trafficking of signaling molecules and RNAs to regulate survival and function.
Diane Shao, MD, PhD
Instructor, Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Genetic mechanisms affecting human brain development
Eliot Shearer, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
The genomics and molecular physiology of hearing loss
Lois Smith, MD, PhD
Ophthalmologist, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School.
Retinopathy of prematurity.
Siddarth Srivastava, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Neuroimaging correlates of cognition and behavior in Phelan-McDermid Syndrome and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
Judith Steen, PhD
Associate in Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Novel proteogenomics methods in studies of neurodevelopment, regeneration, and neurodegeneration.
Beth Stevens, PhD
Research Associate in Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Neuron-glia signaling, synapse development, plasticity.
Xin Tang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Understanding brain function and dysfunction from model to mechanism to medicine
Nicole Ullrich, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology
Children with Brain Tumors
Hisashi Umemori, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Synaptic circuit development and function.
Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD
Chief, Division of Genetics, Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Bullard Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
Development, evolution and function of the human cerebral cortex.
Simon K. Warfield, PhD
Director of Radiology Research, Boston Children's Hospital; Thorne Griscom Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School.
Medical image computing.
Carol Lee Wilkinson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Attending Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician, Developmental Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital
Translational biomarkers of language acquisition and early cognitive development in neurodevelopmental disorders.
Kellen Winden, MD, PhD
Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Understanding the molecular and cellular pathophysiology of Neurodevelopmental Disorders using human stem cell models.
Clifford Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD
Blackfan Diamond Chair in Neuroscience Research; Director, F.M. Kirby Program in Neurobiology Center; Co-director, Gene Editing and Analysis Core, IDDRC, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.
Pain formation of neural circuits, regeneration.
Timothy Yu, MD, PhD
Attending Physician, Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.
Genetic underpinnings of disorders of human neurodevelopment, translation into better patient care.