Dr. Chris Grunseich is a staff clinician in the Neurogenetics Branch, NINDS, NIH. He received his M.D. from SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine in 2006. At SUNY Stony Brook, he also completed an Howard Hughes Medical Institute research fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Gail Mandel. He completed medical internship at St. Vincent’s Hospital and his residency training in neurology at Georgetown University in 2010. Subsequently, he was a neurogenetics fellow in Dr. Kenneth Fischbeck’s Hereditary Neurological Disease Section. Dr. Grunseich has been a staff clinician since 2016. He is board-certified in Neurology and is a member of the American Academy of 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.