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Anne B. Arnett, PhD

Scientist, Division of Developmental Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital; Member of the Faculty, Harvard Medical School

Research Focus

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and related neurodevelopmental disorders

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Dr. Alan Beggs

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.

Research Focus

Genetics of rare neurodevelopmental disease.

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Larry Benowitz, PhD

Neurosurgical Innovation and Research Endowed Professor, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Neurosurgery and Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School

Research Focus

Rewiring of neural connections after brain injury

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Olaf Bodamer, MD, PhD

Associate Chief, Division of Genetics & Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Disorders of transcriptional regulation.

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Chinfei Chen, MD, PhD

Chinfei Chen, MD, PhD

Research Associate in Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Neurobiology; synaptic and circuit plasticity in neurodevelopment disorders.

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Maya Chopra, MBBS, FRACP

Maya Chopra, MBBS, FRACP

Director of Translational Genomic Medicine, RSZ-TNC, Boston Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Research Focus

Discovery and delineation of new and emerging rare genetic neurodevelopmental syndromes, evaluation of underlying mechanisms to inform therapeutic development.

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Dr. Wendy Chung Chief of Pediatrics, BCH

Wendy Chung, MD, PhD

Chair of Pediatrics

Research Focus

We study the genetic basis of human disease and how to implement information about genetics in medicine.

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Alexander Cohen, MD, PhD

Alexander Cohen, MD, PhD

Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Research Focus

Identifying treatment targets for symptoms in Autism Spectrum Disorder by studying cohorts with lesion-induced symptoms.

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Sandeep Robert Datta, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Research Focus

Transformation of information about ethnologically-relevant cues into naturalistic patterns of action.

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Michael Tri H. Do, PhD

Research Associate, Boston Children's Hospital, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Research Focus

Regulation of physiology and behavior by light.

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Min Dong, PhD

Research Associate in Urology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor in Urology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Membrane trafficking in neurons and bacterial neurotoxins.

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Susan Dymecki, MD, PhD

Professor of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute; Director, Biological and Biomedical Sciences PhD Program, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Developmental and molecular effects on neural circuit development and function.

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Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari

Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Research Focus

Translational research in childhood-onset movement disorders

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Dr. Elizabeth Engle

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.

Research Focus

Cranial motor neuron an axon development.

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Michaela Fagiolini, PhD

Michela Fagiolini, PhD

Research Associate in Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital; Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Circuit dissection and translational biomarkers of neurodevelopment disorders.

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Susan Faja

Susan Faja, PhD

Research Associate, Boston Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School

Research Focus

Clinical neuroscience of autism and neurodevelopmental disorders

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Brielle Ferguson, PhD

Brielle Ferguson, PhD

Assistant Professor of Genetics and Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Research Focus

Cellular and Circuit Mechanisms of Attention in Health and Disease

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Anne Fulton, MD

Ophthalmologist and Director, Pediatric Medical Retinal Service, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Human retinal development, normal and abnormal.

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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.

Research Focus

Somatosensation in health and disease.

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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.

Research Focus

Psychiatric and imaging genetics.

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Lisa Goodrich, PhD

Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Genetic Dissection of neural circuit assembly and function.

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P. Ellen Grant, MD

Director, Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Fetal neonatal neuroimaging combining MRI, MEG and NIRS to study brain development.

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Dr. Michael Greenberg

Michael Greenberg, PhD

Nathan Marsh Pusey Professor of Neurobiology, Chair, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Experience-dependent neural circuit development.

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Chenghua Gu, PhD

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Molecular mechanisms underlying the blood brain-barrier and neuromuscular coupling.

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Emanuela Gussoni, PhD

Assistant in Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Muscular dystrophies and downstream mechanisms resulting from primary losss of protein function.

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Xi He, PhD

Research Associate, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Early nervous system development, cell-cell communications.

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Zhigang He

Zhigang He, PhD, BM

Research Associate, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Axon regeneration and function recovery after brain and spinal cord injury.

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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.

Research Focus

Critical periods in brain development.

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Jeffrey Holt, PhD

Research Associate in Otolaryngology and Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Otolaryngology and of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Molecular basis of sensory signals in hearing and deafness.

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Pascal Kaeser, MD

Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Mechanisms of neurotransmitter secretion.

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Dong (aka Don) Kong

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

Research Focus

Neural Circuitry and Synaptic Plasticity of Neuron-Metabolism

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Louis Kunkel, PhD

Director, Genomics Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Pathogenesis and genetics of muscular dystrophies.

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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.

Research Focus

Choroid plexus-cerebrospinal fluid-based signaling in the nervous system.

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April Levin, MD

Assistant, Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Neural network function in neurodevelopment disorders.

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Stephen Liberles, PhD

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Internal and external senses.

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Jonathan Lipton, PhD

Jonathan Lipton, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Circadian rhythms and sleep in neurological health and disease.

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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.

Research Focus

Use of traumatic brain injury models to develop new biomarkers of injury and recovery.

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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.

Research Focus

Influence of environmental factors, including chemicals and diet, on the developing nervous system.

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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.

Research Focus

Cognitive neuroscience.

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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.

Research Focus

Kawasaki disease, neurologic outcomes of congenital heart disease.

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Heather Olson, MD

Assistant in Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Clinical research in epilepsy genetics and CDKL5 deficiency disorder.

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Lauren Orefice, PhD

Assistant, Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Development, function and dysfunction of somatosensory systems.

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Phillip L. Pearl, MD

Director, Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology, Boston Children's Hospital; William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Inherited metabolic epilepsies.

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Scott Pomeroy

Scott Pomeroy, MD, PhD

Past Chairman, Dept of Neurology; Bronson Crothers Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Co-director, IDDRC.

Research Focus

Molecular and cellular biology of brain tumors.

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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.

Research Focus

Clinical trials in individuals with neurodevelopment disorders.

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Meenakshi Rao, MD, PhD

Meenakshi Rao, MD, PhD

Attending Physician, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Enteric neurobiology in health and disease.

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Caitlin Rollins, MD

Caitlin Rollins, MD

Director, Cardiac Neurodevelopmental Program; Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Cardiac neurodevelopment.

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Paul Rosenberg, MD, PhD

Senior Associate, Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital; Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Molecular Mechanisms of brain injury.

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Alexander Rotenberg, MD, PhD

Director, Neuromodulation Program; Associate, Department of Neurology; Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Noninvasive brain stimulation, neurobiology, neuromodulation.

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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.

Research Focus

Axon development and neurologic disease.

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Dr. Catherine Salussolia

Catherine L. Salussolia, MD, PhD

Attending, Epilepsy Center, Boston Children's Hospital; Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Research Focus

Tuberous Sclerosis Associated Epilepsy, Epilepsy Genetics

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Dr. Thomas Schwarz

Thomas Schwarz, PhD

Research Associate in Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Mitochondrial dynamics, neuronal cell biology.

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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.

Research Focus

Axon biology: trafficking of signaling molecules and RNAs to regulate survival and function.

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Diane Shao, MD, PhD

Instructor, Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School

Research Focus

Genetic mechanisms affecting human brain development

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Eliot Shearer, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

Research Focus

The genomics and molecular physiology of hearing loss

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Lois Smith, MD, PhD

Ophthalmologist, Boston Children's Hospital; Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Retinopathy of prematurity.

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Siddarth Srivastava, MD

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Research Focus

Neuroimaging correlates of cognition and behavior in Phelan-McDermid Syndrome and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

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Judith Steen, PhD

Associate in Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Novel proteogenomics methods in studies of neurodevelopment, regeneration, and neurodegeneration.

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Beth Stevens

Beth Stevens, PhD

Research Associate in Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Neuron-glia signaling, synapse development, plasticity.

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Xin Tang, PhD

Xin Tang, PhD

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Research Focus

Understanding brain function and dysfunction from model to mechanism to medicine

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Nicole Ullrich, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology

Research Focus

Children with Brain Tumors

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Hisashi Umemori, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Synaptic circuit development and function.

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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.

Research Focus

Development, evolution and function of the human cerebral cortex.

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Simon K. Warfield, PhD

Director of Radiology Research, Boston Children's Hospital; Thorne Griscom Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Medical image computing.

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Carol Lee Wilkinson

Carol Lee Wilkinson, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Attending Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician, Developmental Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital

Research Focus

Translational biomarkers of language acquisition and early cognitive development in neurodevelopmental disorders.

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Kellen Winden, MD, PhD

Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Research Focus

Understanding the molecular and cellular pathophysiology of Neurodevelopmental Disorders using human stem cell models.

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Clifford Woolf

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.

Research Focus

Pain formation of neural circuits, regeneration.

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Timothy Yu, MD, PhD

Attending Physician, Division of Genetics and Genomics, Boston Children's Hospital; Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School.

Research Focus

Genetic underpinnings of disorders of human neurodevelopment, translation into better patient care.

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