Christopher A. Walsh

Christopher A. Walsh
Nationality United States
Fields Genetics, Neuroscience
Alma mater Bucknell University
Doctoral advisor Ray W Guillery

Christopher A. Walsh is the Bullard Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Division of Genetics at Children's Hospital Boston, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the former Director of the Harvard-MIT MD-PhD Program. His research focuses on genetics of human cortical development and somatic mutations contributions to human brain diseases.[1]

Early life and education

Walsh earned his B.S degree in chemistry from Bucknell University in 1978. He went on to graduate school at Chicago University, where he earned his MD (1985) and Ph.D. (1983) in life science in 1988 with Ray Guillery.[2]

Career

Walsh completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in 1993 with Constance Cepko, and later that year joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School as a professor of genetics, where he remains to this day. Walsh has authored more than 350 publications in scholarly journals and trained several graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. Not to be confused with fellow Harvard professor Christopher T Walsh

References

  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "Chris Walsh Profile". HHMI.
  2. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "Chris Walsh Profile". HHMI.

External links

Wilder Penfield Award and Lecture, Middle Eastern Medical Assembly Pruzhansky Award, American College of Medical Genetics Jacoby Award, American Neurological Association Derek Denny-Brown Outstanding Investigator Award, American Neurological Association Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Epilepsy Research Award, American Epilepsy Society Krieg Cortical Discoverer Award, Cajal Club


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