Story Landis

Story Landis is an American neurobiologist and director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. She has been director of the institute since September 1, 2003.

Dr. Landis has worked at NINDS since 1995 and was named Chair of the NIH Stem Cell Task Force in 2007.

Dr. Landis received her undergraduate degree in biology from Wellesley College in 1967 and her Master's Degree and Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her doctoral work at Harvard focused on cerebellar development in mice. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where she studied transmitter plasticity in sympathetic neurons.

Dr. Landis served as a professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School until 1985, when she joined the faculty of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Dr. Landis is an elected fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Neurological Association.

References

http://www.ninds.nih.gov/find_people/ninds/bio_dr_story_landis.htm