Carsten Bonnemann

Carsten Bonnemann serves as Chief of the Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disorders of Childhood Section and Acting Chief of the Neurogenetics Branch at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), NIH. He concurrently holds appointments as Adjunct Investigator in the Medical Genetics Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), NIH, and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where he practices as an Attending Physician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

His research centers on the genetic mechanisms of childhood-onset neuromuscular disorders, integrating clinical neurology with molecular genetics to develop targeted therapies. Work spans neurogenetic diagnostics, translational models for muscular dystrophies, and genotype-phenotype correlations in rare pediatric neurological conditions, operating from the NIH Porter Neuroscience Research Center in Bethesda.

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Laboratories and Teams Directs the Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disorders of Childhood Section within NINDS, coordinating multidisciplinary teams spanning neurology, genetics, and molecular biology to advance therapeutic pipelines for conditions like congenital myasthenic syndromes and hereditary neuropathies.