George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Professor and Chairman, Pediatrics
Associate Dean, Academic Affairs
Contact Information
Children's National Medical Center
Center for Clinical and Community Research (CCCR)
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010-2970
Research Interests
Mark Batshaw, MD performs clinical and translational research on inborn errors of metabolism, specifically urea cycle disorders. He co-directs with Mendel Tuchman, MD an NIH funded international consortium that is performing a longitudinal study of all eight urea cycle disorders, studying the impact of these disorders on cognitive functioning using neuroimaging and neuropsychological testing, and performing clinical trials of novel treatments. He is also co-principal investigator of an NIH program project grant that is developing gene therapy, using adenoassociated virus, in mouse models of urea cycle disorders. As a developmental pediatrician the focus of his work is to improve cognitive outcome in these devastating disorders.
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