Edward I Ginns

Biography

Edward Ginns completed his PhD in Physical Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in NY, and went on to receive his MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Following a Medical Internship at Baltimore City Hospital, he trained in Neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY. In 1980 he joined the Developmental and Metabolic Neurology Branch, NINDS at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland where he became a tenured Senior Investigator Neurologist in the Molecular and Medical Genetics Section. In 1986 Dr. Ginns transferred to NIMH as Chief, Section on Molecular Neurogenetics, NIMH. In 2000 he was recruited to the University of Massachusetts Medical School as founding Director of the Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute from the Intramural Research Program of NIMH where he was Chief, Clinical Neuroscience Branch and Supervising Scientist of the NIMH Transgenic and Targeted Gene Modified Mouse Resource. At the University of Massachusetts Medical School Dr. Ginns was founding Director of the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, and he is currently Director of the Program in Medical Genetics and the Lysosomal Disorders Treatment and Research Program. He is Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Clinical Pathology and the Program in Neuroscience. Dr. Ginns is board certified in Neurology with a special interest in developmental and neurogenetic disorders. He is an elected member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

Research Interest

Psychiatry