Dr. Karin Weiss is a pediatrician and clinical geneticist at the Genetics institute in Rambam
Dr. Weiss came to Rambam after completing her medical genetics training in the NIH-Johns Hopkins Consortium residency in Maryland. Dr. Weiss is board certified by the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics in clinical genetics and clinical molecular genetics
Dr. Weiss’s research focuses on understanding the clinical spectrum and molecular basis of rare Mendelian neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Weiss is specifically interested in dysmorphology and in disorders of epigenetic machinery and transcriptional regulation. She currently studies a chromatin remodeling disorder caused by de novo mutations in the gene CHD4 (Sifrim-Hitz-Weiss syndrome).
Meet the Weiss Lab Team