Anushe Munir, MS

  • PhD Candidate

Education & Training

  • BS, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2017
  • MS, Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, 2020
  • PhD, Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, In Progress

Selected Publications

Akinyele, O., Munir, A., Johnson, M. A., Perez, M. S., Gao, Y., Foley, J. R., Wu, Y., Murray-Stewart, T., Casero, R. A., Bayir, H., & Kemaladewi, D. U. (2023). Impaired polyamine metabolism causes behavioral and neuroanatomical defects in a novel mouse model of Snyder-Robinson Syndrome. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.01.15.524155. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.01.15.524155 

Arockiaraj, A. I., Johnson, M. A., Munir, A., Ekambaram, P., Lucas, P. C., McAllister-Lucas, L. M., & Kemaladewi, D. U. (2023). CRISPRa-induced upregulation of human LAMA1 compensates for LAMA2 -deficiency in Merosin-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023.03.06.531347. 

Academic and Research Interests

  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Mouse models
  • Genetic diversity
  • Gene therapy