20 Facts About Kiran Musunuru

Kiran Musunuru is an American cardiologist who is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

Kiran Musunuru is the son of Rao and Prameela Kiran Musunuru; he was born in New York City and grew up in Florida.

Kiran Musunuru's father is a renowned cardiologist who moved to the US from India in 1976.

Kiran Musunuru obtained a degree in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College in 1997.

Kiran Musunuru later obtained a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Rockefeller University in 2003, and an MD from Weill-Cornell Medical College in 2004.

Kiran Musunuru graduated with a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2009, and an ML in Law from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2019.

Kiran Musunuru was interested in heart disease early in his medical career, first training in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and then in Cardiovascular Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Kiran Musunuru undertook postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as the Broad Institute.

Kiran Musunuru's researches the genetics and genomics of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, and is a leading expert in genome-editing techniques, particularly CRISPR-Cas9.

Kiran Musunuru's lab was the first to develop an efficient technique to genetically modify human pluripotent stem cells, and differentiate them to model disease.

Kiran Musunuru discovered two novel genes involved in coronary artery disease: SORT1 and ANGPTL3.

Kiran Musunuru's research aims to find genetic variants which affect the course of disease and could be used to develop protective therapies.

Kiran Musunuru has pioneered the use of genome-editing tools as therapies for heart disease.

Research from Kiran Musunuru's laboratory has shown that the levels of the PCSK9 gene expression could be altered in the liver of mice using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology, drastically reducing the mice's cholesterol levels.

In 2019, Kiran Musunuru was among a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania to develop a stem cell-based test for the effect of genetic variants on heart muscle cells.

Kiran Musunuru was an Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Genetics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as the scientific director of the Center for Inherited Cardiovascular Disease.

Kiran Musunuru is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

Kiran Musunuru is the author of The CRISPR Generation: The Story of the World's First Gene-Edited Babies, in which he delves into the scientific breakthroughs that enabled He Jiankui to create the world's first gene-edited babies, a scandal Kiran Musunuru describes as a "historic ethical fiasco, a deeply flawed experiment".

Kiran Musunuru was one of the independent experts who reviewed He's manuscript.

Kiran Musunuru has an h-index of 57 according to Semantic Scholar.