Dr. Nie is a board-certified child neurologist and epileptologist at the Children’s Neurodevelopment Center (CNDC) of Brown University Health/Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Rhode Island. He is certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) in child neurology and in epilepsy/clinical neurophysiology. Dr. Nie’s clinical practice focuses on the diagnosis and management of complex neurological disorders, with particular expertise in epilepsy care encompassing pharmacologic therapies, dietary interventions, epilepsy surgery, and neuromodulation. He serves as faculty in the Clinical Neurophysiology and Epilepsy Fellowship programs within Brown Neurology and as an attending physician in the multidisciplinary epilepsy surgery program at Rhode Island Hospital/Hasbro Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Nie’s research investigates the molecular and network mechanisms underlying early-life epilepsies and related neurodevelopmental disorders. His prior work examined mTOR pathway dysfunction in autism and epilepsy—co-occurring neurological conditions in patients with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC)—supported by Autism Speaks and The Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research at Boston Children’s Hospital. He is a member of the Center for Translational Neuroscience (CTN) at Brown University, where his current work focuses on biomarker discovery and precision-medicine approaches to childhood epileptic encephalopathies.
| Lob K, Sawka DM, Gaitanis JN, Liu JS, Nie DA. "Genetic Diagnostic Yield in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Epilepsy Phenotypes in Children with Genetically Defined ASD." Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024. |
| Nga Ying Eng, Duyu A Nie. "Infantile epileptic spasms syndrome in a child with lissencephaly associated with de novo PAFAH1B1 v ariant and coincidental CMV infection." Epilepsy & behavior reports, vol. 26, 2024, pp. 100664. |
| Abdulrazeq, Hael F., Kimata, Anna R., Shao, Belinda, Svokos, Konstantina, Ayub, Neishay, Nie, Duyu, Asaad, Wael F. "Laser amygdalohippocampotomy reduces contralateral hippocampal sub-clinical activity in bitemporal epilepsy: A case illustration of responsive neurostimulator ambulatory recordings." Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, vol. 25, 2024, pp. 100636. |
| Daniels C, Greene C, Smith L, Pestana-Knight E, Demarest S, Zhang B, Benke TA, Poduri A, Olson HE, CDKL5 Study Group. "CDKL5 deficiency disorder and other infantile-onset genetic epilepsies." Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2023. |
| Lob K, Hou T, Chu TC, Ibrahim N, Bartolini L, Nie DA. "Clinical features and drug-resistance in pediatric epilepsy with co-occurring autism: A retrospective comparative cohort study." Epilepsy & Behavior, vol. 143, 2023, pp. 109228. |
| Gaitanis J, Nie D, Hou T, Frye R. "Developmental Regression Followed by Epilepsy and Aggression: A New Syndrome in Autism Spectrum Disorder?." Journal of Personalized Medicine, vol. 13, no. 7, 2023, pp. 1049. |
| Haviland I, Daniels CI, Greene CA, Drew J, Love-Nichols JA, Swanson LC, Smith L, Nie DA, Benke T, Sheidley BR, Zhang B, Poduri A, Olson HE. "Genetic Diagnosis Impacts Medical Management for Pediatric Epilepsies." Pediatric Neurology, vol. 138, 2022, pp. 71-80. |
| Nie DA, Abud A, Serrano-Gonzalez M, Harappanahally G, Patil R. "Pediatric stiff limb syndrome with polyautoimmunity of anti-GAD-65, anti-islet cell, and thyroid peroxidase antibodies: A case report and review of literature." Journal of neuroimmunology, vol. 367, 2022, pp. 577865. |
| Lob K, Bassell-Hawkins J, Patil R, Nie D, Bartolini L. "Vitamin B6 decreases the risk of levetiracetam discontinuation in children with epilepsy: A retrospective study." Epilepsy & Behavior, vol. 2022 Jul 12;134:108839, 2022, pp. 108839. |
| Duyu A, Nie. "Encephalopathy and Cytotoxic Lesion of the Corpus Callosum Associated with Cytokine Storm in COVID-19: A Case Report." Journal of Pediatric Neurology and Neuroscience, vol. 5, no. 2, 2021. |
| LaBarbera, Vincent, Nie, Duyu. "Occipital Intermittent Rhythmic Delta Activity (OIRDA) In Pediatric Focal Epilepsies: A Case Series." Epilepsy & Behavior Reports, vol. 16, 2021, pp. 100472. |
| Nie D, Chen Z, Ebrahimi-Fakhari D, Di Nardo A, Julich K, Robson VK, Cheng YC, Woolf CJ, Heiman M, Sahin M. "The Stress-Induced Atf3-Gelsolin Cascade Underlies Dendritic Spine Deficits in Neuronal Models of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex." Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 35, no. 30, 2015, pp. 10762-72. |
| Nie D, Sahin M. "A genetic model to dissect the role of Tsc-mTORC1 in neuronal cultures." Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 821, 2012, pp. 393-405. |
| Akten B, Kye MJ, Hao le T, Wertz MH, Singh S, Nie D, Huang J, Merianda TT, Twiss JL, Beattie CE, Steen JA, Sahin M. "Interaction of survival of motor neuron (SMN) and HuD proteins with mRNA cpg15 rescues motor neuron axonal deficits." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 108, no. 25, 2011, pp. 10337-42. |
| Nie D, Di Nardo A, Han JM, Baharanyi H, Kramvis I, Huynh T, Dabora S, Codeluppi S, Pandolfi PP, Pasquale EB, Sahin M. "Tsc2-Rheb signaling regulates EphA-mediated axon guidance." Nature Neuroscience, vol. 13, no. 2, 2010, pp. 163-72. |
| Ozcan L, Ergin AS, Lu A, Chung J, Sarkar S, Nie D, Myers MG Jr, Ozcan U. "Endoplasmic reticulum stress plays a central role in development of leptin resistance." Cell Metabolism, vol. 9, no. 1, 2009, pp. 35-51. |
| Nie DY, Xu G, Ahmed S, Xiao ZC. "DNA vaccine and the CNS axonal regeneration." Current pharmaceutical design, vol. 13, no. 24, 2007, pp. 2500-6. |
| Ma QH, Yang WL, Nie DY, Dawe GS, Xiao ZC. "Physiological roles of neurite outgrowth inhibitors in myelinated axons of the central nervous system--implications for the therapeutic neutralization of neurite outgrowth inhibitors." Current pharmaceutical design, vol. 13, no. 24, 2007, pp. 2529-37. |
| Nie DY, Ma QH, Law JW, Chia CP, Dhingra NK, Shimoda Y, Yang WL, Gong N, Chen QW, Xu G, Hu QD, Chow PK, Ng YK, Ling EA, Watanabe K, Xu TL, Habib AA, Schachner M, Xiao ZC. "Oligodendrocytes regulate formation of nodes of Ranvier via the recognition molecule OMgp." NGB, vol. 2, no. 3, 2006, pp. 151-64. |
| Cui XY, Hu QD, Tekaya M, Shimoda Y, Ang BT, Nie DY, Sun L, Hu WP, Karsak M, Duka T, Takeda Y, Ou LY, Dawe GS, Yu FG, Ahmed S, Jin LH, Schachner M, Watanabe K, Arsenijevic Y, Xiao ZC. "NB-3/Notch1 pathway via Deltex1 promotes neural progenitor cell differentiation into oligodendrocytes." Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 279, no. 24, 2004, pp. 25858-65. |
| Xu G, Nie DY, Wang WZ, Zhang PH, Shen J, Ang BT, Liu GH, Luo XG, Chen NL, Xiao ZC. "Optic nerve regeneration in polyglycolic acid-chitosan conduits coated with recombinant L1-Fc." Neuroreport, vol. 15, no. 14, 2004, pp. 2167-72. |
| Xu G, Nie DY, Chen JT, Wang CY, Yu FG, Sun L, Luo XG, Ahmed S, David S, Xiao ZC. "Recombinant DNA vaccine encoding multiple domains related to inhibition of neurite outgrowth: a potential strategy for axonal regeneration." Journal of neurochemistry, vol. 91, no. 4, 2004, pp. 1018-23. |
| Nie DY, Zhou ZH, Ang BT, Teng FY, Xu G, Xiang T, Wang CY, Zeng L, Takeda Y, Xu TL, Ng YK, Faivre-Sarrailh C, Popko B, Ling EA, Schachner M, Watanabe K, Pallen CJ, Tang BL, Xiao ZC. "Nogo-A at CNS paranodes is a ligand of Caspr: possible regulation of K(+) channel localization." EMBO J, vol. 22, no. 21, 2003, pp. 5666-78. |
CMN Award (early life epilepsy biomarker, PI), 2022
NIH/NIMH R21 (ASH1L mechanism, subaward; PIs- Liu, Lizarraga), 2024
Eagles Autism Foundation (ASH1L therapeutic, subaward; PI- Lizarraga), 2024
PERC (Pediatric Epilepsy Research Consortium). 2021- present
American Epilepsy Society (AES) Investigator Workshop Committee. 1/1/2023- present
Editorial Board, ‘Translational Neuroscience’ (De Gruyter), Nov. 2024- present
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | PhD | National University of Singapore |
| 1996 | MD | Central South University (中南大学) |
| Research Fellow | Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA., Neurology | 2007-2014 | Boston, MA, USA |
Reseach Award from The Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, USA. 2011-2013: ‘Translatome Profiling in TSC-deficient Neurons’.
Postdoctoral Grant from Autism Speaks, USA. 2007-2009: ‘Visual System Connectivity in a High-Risk Model of Autism’.
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Liu, Judy | Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Associate Professor of Neurology |
| Lizarraga, Sofia | Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry |
| Morrow, Eric | Mencoff Family Professor of Biology, Professor of Brain Science, Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior |
Division of Pediatric Neurology and the Children’s Neurodevelopment Center (CNDC), Brown University Health/Hasbro Children’s
Consulting Neurologist in Women and Infants Hospital, Rhode Island (WIHRI)
| Clinical Neurophysiology | ABPN, Clinical Neurophysiology | 2021-Present | #3369 |
| Neurology with Special Qualification in Child Neurology | ABPN, Pediatric Neurology | 2019-Present | #12955 |
| Clinical Fellow. Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA., 2019-2020 |
| Resident Physician. Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, 2014-2019 |
