Our Scientific Advisory Board

Mustafa Sahin, MD PhD

Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Rosamund Stone Zander Chair and Director, Translational Neuroscience Center, Boston Children's Hospital; Neurologist-in-chief and Chair of the Department of Neurology, Boston Children’s Hospital

Mustafa Sahin, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sahin has established and directs the Rosamund Stone Zander Translational Neuroscience Center and the Multidisciplinary Tuberous Sclerosis Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and is the neurologist-in-chief and Chair of the Department of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital. In 2023, Dr. Sahin was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. The research in the Sahin laboratory is directed at understanding the cellular mechanisms of neuronal connectivity and their relationship to neurological dysfunction. His research centres upon tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) and related neurodevelopmental disorders. He also directs a Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network studying the comparative pathobiology of TSC, PTEN and SHANK3 mutations in patients. He has co-chaired the Program Committee for the 2021 International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) meeting.