William-L-Nyhan
Professor
UC San Diego School of Medicine in La Jolla
USA
Biography
Dr.William L. Nyhan currently serves as a professor of pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine in La Jolla, California. He graduated in medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1949 and MA at Harvard University, Cambridge. Postgraduate in pediatrics at Yale University and entered into US Army for the period 1951-1953. In 1958 Nyhan obtained a doctorate from the University of Illinois. He later became a professor and chairman of pediatrics at the University of California, Sand Diego.
Dr.William L. Nyhan best known as the co-discoverer of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. He has held positions at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and has served on a number of advisory committees, pediatric advisory boards, and research foundation boards. He has studied the neuropathology of propionic acidemia, including the manifestation of basal ganglia infarction and its neurologic, non-metabolic presentation. His total number of Publications is 677.
Research Interest
Methylmalonic Academia
Newborn Screening
Mitochondrial Diseases
Neurologic disability
Methylmalonic acidemia in liver transplantation
Lesch - Nyhan
