mitochondrial diseases
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Faculty & Staff




Salvatore Dimauro, MD


Director Emeritus, H. Houston Merritt Clinical Research Center for Muscular Dystrophy and Related Diseases
Lucy G. Moses Professor of Neurology


Michio Hirano, MD


Medical Director
Professor of Neurology


Mahesh Mansukhani, MD


Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology


Ali Naini, PhD


Director, Laboratory of Metabolic and Mitochondrial Diseases
Associate Professor of Clinical Pathology and Cell Biology
Department of Pathology and Cell Biology


Eric Schon, PhD


Lewis P. Rowland Professor of Neurology (in Genetics and Development)


Kurenai Tanji, MD, PhD


Professor of Clinical Pathology
  • Clinical Research for mitochondrial encephalomyopathies including biochemistry, morphology, and genetics.

  • Surgical neuropathology service, Neuromuscular diagnostic service, and Brain autopsy service

Peter L. Nagy, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology

Hasan Orhan Akman, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology







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