Bharatendu “Bharat” Chandra, MD Assistant Professor Stead Family Department of Pediatrics Director, Iowa Undiagnosed Diseases Program Division of Medical Genetics and Genomics UI Carver College of Medicine

12 Mar 2026
Neurogenetics
Dr. Chandra is a neurogeneticist, currently an Assistant Professor with the Division of Medical Genetics and Genomics at the University of Iowa. He is an adult neurologist, internist, and a medical geneticist, with the expertise to study the natural history of complex neurogenetic and rare diseases. His research focus is on understanding complex and ultra-rare disorders using deep phenotyping, multiomics, stem cells and organoid-based disease modeling. He is the director of the Iowa Undiagnosed Diseases Program, which leverages a hybrid clinical and research-based model to care for individuals with undiagnosed rare and complex diseases across their lifespan.