Graduation Medical Education (GME): Muscle and Nerve Disorders

Program Description

The fellowship program in muscle disorders trains pediatric and adult neurologists in inflammatory and genetic muscle and nerve diseases in preparation for an academic career. Muscle and Nerve Disorders Fellows have the opportunity to participate in conducting therapeutic clinical trials using genetic, pharmacological and biological approaches. A number of cohorts of patients with specific muscle and nerve disorders are followed, and a genetic outreach program is in place to identify and characterize pediatric and adult patients and their families with both new and previously known hereditary muscle and nerve diseases applying next generation genomic technologies in conjunction with extended phenotyping. The first year of this fellowship can be at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital as part of a JHU/NINDS joint neuromuscular fellowship program.

Areas of Current Research

  • Congenital muscular dystrophies
  • Congenital myopathies
  • Inherited myopathies
  • Muscular dystrophies
  • Myofibrillar myopathies
  • Myotonic dystrophy
  • Inherited disorders of the peripheral nervous system and motor neuron
  • Muscle regeneration
  • Autoimmune muscle disease, including dermatomyositis, polymyositis, and statin-triggered necrotizing myopathy.
  • Inclusion Body Myositis

Application Information
Apply to this program through the NIH Graduate Medical Education Application System and check out the NINDS intramural website for more information.

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This page last updated on 07/25/2022

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