Mustafa Sahin

Mustafa Sahin is a pediatric neurologist and developmental neurobiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Bronson Crothers Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He received his ScB from Brown University and his MD and PhD from Yale School of Medicine. He completed a pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a child neurology residency at Boston Children’s Hospital. At Boston Children’s, Dr. Sahin is Director the Rosamund Stone Zander Hansjoerg Wyss Translational Neuroscience Center. He is the co-principal investigator of the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center. He directs a national consortium to study biomarkers and the comparative pathobiology of four genetic disorders (TSC, PHTS, SYNGAP1-ID, Phelan-McDermid syndrome), all associated with autism and intellectual disability. His research spans the basic, translational, and clinical spectrum, using stem-cell-derived human neurons, animal models, and patients with rare neurogenetic conditions. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023. In 2024, he became Chair of the Department of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital.