About Us
Principal Investigator
Dr. Chris McGraw, MD, PhD
Dr. McGraw is an Adult Epileptologist at Massachusetts General Hospital on the Epilepsy Service and the Herscot Center for Tuberous Sclerosis Complex, and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. He is also affiliated with the Epilepsy Genetics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) under Dr. Ann Poduri, MD, MPH. Dr. McGraw is site PI for the Epilepsy Learning Healthcare System (ELHS) at MGH, a multi-center initiative to improve the quality of care for patients with epilepsy.
Biography
Dr. McGraw completed a combined MSTP MD/PhD program at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) with a PhD in Developmental Biology under Dr. Huda Y. Zoghbi, MD in 2012 before completing his MD in 2014. He completed residency in Adult Neurology at University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where he received a competitive R25 award to study epilepsy in zebrafish with Dr. Scott Baraban PhD. He completed the Adult Epilepsy Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in 2020.
His research uses genetics to understand the molecular pathways underlying seizure susceptibility in rare and common epilepsies and for identifying novel therapies through genetic and pharmacological screening.
Lab Members
Guoqi Zhang MD
Research Technologist.
Boston Childrens Hospital
Nivedita Jha MBBS
Research Fellow.
Massachusetts General Hospital
