Christopher Grunseich

Dr. Chris Grunseich is a staff clinician in the Neurogenetics Branch, NINDS. He completed his undergraduate studies at Brown University, and went on to receive his M.D. from SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine in 2006. While at SUNY Stony Brook he completed an HHMI research fellowship year working in the laboratory of Dr. Gail Mandel. He then completed medical internship at St. Vincent’s Hospital, and his residency training in neurology at Georgetown University. He joined Dr. Kenneth Fischbeck’s research group as a neurogenetics fellow, and has been a Staff Clinician since 2016. He is board certified in Neurology. His research focuses on clinical studies of patients with motor neuron disease and using patient-derived cell models to better understand the biology of motor neuron diseases.