Murat Günel, M.D., HS ’98, has been named the Nixdorff-German Professor of Neurosurgery. Günel, also professor of neurobiology and of genetics, is co-director of the Yale Neurogenetics Program and studies genetic risk factors for neurovascular disease. He received his medical degree from Istanbul School of Medicine in Turkey and completed his residency in neurosurgery at Yale-New Haven Hospital in 1998. That same year, he joined the School of Medicine faculty as an assistant professor of neurosurgery. Günel has been chief of the Section of Neurovascular Surgery since 2001 and a full professor of neurosurgery since 2008.