Mustafa Sahin is a pediatric neurologist and developmental neurobiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Bronson Crothers Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. He received his Sc.B. from Brown University and his M.D. and Ph.D. from Yale School of Medicine. He completed a pediatrics residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a child neurology residency at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Sahin is director of the Rosamund Stone Zander & Hansjoerg Wyss Translational Neuroscience Center at Boston Children’s. He is the co-principal investigator of the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center. He directs a national consortium to study biomarkers and the comparative pathobiology of three genetic disorders (TSC, PHTS and Phelan-McDermid syndrome), all associated with autism and intellectual disability. His research spans the basic, translational and clinical spectrum, using stem-cell–derived human neurons, animal models and patients with rare neurogenetic conditions. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023. In 2024, he became chair of the Department of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital.