Craig David Blackstone BS, MS, MD, PhD

Dr. Blackstone received B.S. and M.S. degrees in 1987 from the University of Chicago and M.D. and Ph.D. degrees in 1994 from Johns Hopkins University. His graduate studies, in the laboratory of Richard Huganir, were on the structure and regulation of glutamate receptors, for which he received the David Israel Macht Award. After a neurology residency at the Harvard-Longwood Neurology Program,

Dr. Blackstone completed a fellowship in clinical movement disorders at the Massachusetts General Hospital. During this time he also conducted postdoctoral research with Morgan Sheng at Harvard Medical School, investigating the functions of proteins implicated in hereditary dystonias. Dr. Blackstone joined the NINDS as an investigator in 2001. His laboratory investigates the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying hereditary movement disorders.