Peter B. Kang, MD

Peter B. Kang, MD is a pediatric neuromuscular neurologist and physician scientist whose research focuses on the genetics and disease mechanisms of muscular dystrophy. Key discoveries from his laboratory include the identification of novel muscular dystrophy genes and the delineation of muscle disease mechanisms related to the Notch signaling pathway, cholesterol metabolism, and RNA splicing. His laboratory actively uses nanopore long read sequencing techniques for genomic and transcriptomic analyses. He has published extensively on these and other neuromuscular topics. A recent IHI-related publication titled Accelerating Medical Record Data Abstraction and Analysis in Muscular Dystrophy is available online. He is the Editor of Neurology® Genetics. He is the Director of the Greg Marzolf Jr. Muscular Dystrophy Center, Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Neurology, and Scholar at the Institute for Translational Neuroscience (ITN).