Tim Yu, MD, PhD

Tim is a neurogeneticist at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He leads a multidisciplinary research group in the Division of Genetics and Genomics whose efforts span the range from experimental neurobiological investigations of autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders to human genetics to the advancement of novel models for individualized genomic medicine. He pioneered the use of antisense oligonucleotides as individualized medicines for seriously debilitating or fatal neurogenetic conditions.