Wednesday, June 21, 2023

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Brain Somatic Mosaicism in Focal Epilepsy: Oncogenes Strike Again!

Sattar Khoshkhoo, M.D.

Instructor in Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Director of the Epilepsy Genetics Clinic

Division of Epilepsy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital 


Sattar is an Instructor in the epilepsy division and the director of the epilepsy genetics clinic at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He completed his medical training at UCSF where he worked with Eddie Chang to study the mechanisms of language perception in surgical epilepsy patients and later joined the laboratory of Vikaas Sohal as an HHMI fellow to investigate the cellular mechanisms of focal epilepsies. Sattar completed his neurology residency at Mass General Brigham and his epilepsy training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. During residency he joined the laboratory of Chris Walsh at Boston Children’s Hospital where he shifted his research focus to the genetic underpinnings of focal epilepsies, which he continues to work on today. Sattar’s research has been recognized through several awards including the American Epilepsy Society Young Investigator Award and he was selected as an Emerging Scholar by the American Neurologic Association.



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