McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine

Meet Our Director

David Valle, MD

Inside this site you will find information about the world renowned research, clinical and educational programs at the McKusick- Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.

This site is updated regularly to provide you with accurate information about our members, their research interests and contact information.

We take great pride in our clinical services and are constantly striving to make them the very best. If you are a patient and need an appointment or information about a genetic disorder, we can help you.

We have outstanding predoctoral and postdoctoral training programs in medical and human genetics.

The IGM is the home of the largest annotated database in medical genetics:

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In Memory

VICTOR A. McKUSICK, M.D.

1921-2008

“FATHER OF MEDICAL GENETICS”

Victor Almon McKusick, M.D., University Professor of Medical Genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, one of the two distinguished Johns Hopkins geneticists for whom the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine was named, and a towering international figure in genetics research, diagnosis and treatment, died Tuesday, July 22 at home. He was 86.

The relentlessly energetic clinician scholar, a pioneer in the pursuit of the links between inheritance and disease, died at home, of complications due to cancer.     Read more

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