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Awardee

Mustafa Sahin, M.D., Ph.D.

SFARI Investigator

Affiliations
  • Neurologist-in-Chief, Department of Neurology, Boston Children's Hospital
  • Bronson Crothers Chair Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Publications

Quantifying neurobehavioral profiles across neurodevelopmental genetic syndromes and idiopathic neurodevelopmental disorders.

Dev. Med. Child Neurol., May 1, 2025

T. Frazier, Busch R.M., Klaas P., Lachlan K., E. Loth, Smith-Hicks C., et al.

Remote monitoring of social attention in neurogenetic syndromes and idiopathic neurodevelopmental disability.

Autism Res., February 3, 2025

T. Frazier, Busch R.M., Klaas P., Lachlan K., S. Jeste, A. Kolevzon, et al.

A randomized controlled trial of everolimus for neurocognitive symptoms in PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome.

Hum. Mol. Genet., October 10, 2022

Srivastava S., Jo B., Zhang B., T. Frazier, Gallagher A.S., Peck F., et al.

Neurodevelopmental profile of HIVEP2-related disorder.

Dev. Med. Child Neurol., April 29, 2022

Mo A., L. Green Snyder, Babington O., W. Chung, M. Sahin, and Srivastava S.

Projects

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Investigating the mechanisms of FMRP dysregulation due to the loss of TSC2

Awarded 2018
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SPARK

Awarded 2016

Featuring Mustafa Sahin

Purkinje nerve cells in the cerebellum.

SFARI Hosts 2026 Investigator Meeting

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INSYNC-AS Inaugural Meeting Discusses the Therapeutic Landscape for Angelman Syndrome

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SFARI Hosts Workshop on Newborn Screening

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SFARI 2018 Explorer Awardees Announced

Events

Tuberous Sclerosis: Shedding light on the neural circuitry of autism

Lecture

October 5, 2016

5–6:15 p.m. ET

Speaker

Mustafa Sahin

Mustafa Sahin headshot.

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