Kiran Musunuru
Director, Orphan Disease Center, Penn Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Director, Genetic and Epigenetic · University of Pennsylvania Health System
Credentials: · · · · · ·
History
PresentOrphan Disease Center · University of Pennsylvania Health System
- Present
Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- Present
Genetic and Epigenetic Origins of Disease Program · Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
- 2010–2011
2000–2004
Research
Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids
Systematic review or meta-analysis · Nature · 2010 · 2,901 citations
Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: a mendelian randomisation study
Systematic review or meta-analysis · The Lancet · 2012 · 1,824 citations
Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease
Systematic review or meta-analysis · Nature Genetics · 2011 · 1,506 citations
- SK
33 papers
25 papers
14 papers
- AN
14 papers
14 papers
14 papers
14 papers
14 papers
Grants
- 2026–2033
Therapeutic Editing for Cardiovascular Diseases
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · R35
Contact PI · $1.1M · University of Pennsylvania
- 2024–2028
Personalized Prime Editing as a Platform for Hepatic Inborn Errors of Metabolism
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences · U01
PI · $10.8M · Children's Hosp of Philadelphia
- 2023–2028
Postnatal and Prenatal Therapeutic Base Editing for Metabolic Diseases
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · U19
PI · $33M · Children's Hosp of Philadelphia
- 2019–2026
Diagnosis, Prevention, And Treatment Of Cardiovascular Diseases With Genome Editing
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute · R35
Contact PI · $5.7M · University of Pennsylvania