Investigator, Assoc Prof (M) Center for Genomic Medicine, Mass General Research Institute

Associate Professor of Neurology Harvard Medical School

adenosine triphosphatases; endopeptidases; escherichia coli proteins; heat-shock proteins; huntington disease; nerve tissue proteins; serine endopeptidases; trinucleotide repeat expansion

Ihn Sik Seong, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Seong received his B.S with Molecular Biology and then received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Seoul National University, Korea.

He pursued postdoctoral training in Dr. Marcy MacDonald’s laboratory at MGH. His research into the structural, biochemical and functional properties of the full-length huntingtin protein aims to pioneer the understanding of the cause of Huntington’s disease (HD) at its root cause.