Carsten G. Bönnemann, MD
Carsten Bönnemann graduated from Medical School at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He trained in pediatrics in Hamburg and Göttingen, and in neurology/child neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston. He conducted postdoctoral research in genetics and neuromuscular specialty training at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. From 2002 he was Co-Director of the Neuromuscular Program and Director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Clinic at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia/University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he continues to be on faculty as adjunct Full Professor of Neurology. In 2010 he was recruited to the NIH as a tenured Senior Investigator and Chief of the Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disorders of Childhood Section in the Neurogenetics Branch of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Dr. Bönnemann was a Pew Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences and received the Derek Denny-Brown Neurological Scholar Award from the American Neurological Association. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Neuromusular Diseases (JND). Clinical, genomic and translational work in the Section centers in particular around early onset neuromuscular disorders such as the congenital myopathies and congenital muscular dystrophies and on the development of molecular and gene directed treatment approaches to these conditions, including first-in-human intrathecal and intravenous AAV mediated gene transfer trials.