Sonja W. Scholz
Austrian neurologist and neurogeneticist
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Career
Scholz received a medical degree from the Medical University of Innsbruck and a Ph.D. from University College London (2010). From 2005 to 2009, she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Neurogenetics at National Institute on Aging. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at Georgetown University from 2009 to 2011. After completing an internship and adult neurology residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 2011 to 2015, she joined NINDS in 2015, completed a fellowship in neurodegeneration, and became a Lasker Clinical Research Tenure Track Investigator in 2018. In 2024, she was tenured as a Senior Investigator. She is also an adjunct Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University.
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Research
Scholz's research integrates large-scale genomic and multi-omic approaches to define the genetic architecture and biological mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases, such as dementia with Lewy bodies, multiple system atrophy, progressive supranuclear palsy, and frontotemporal dementia. Her work in neurogenetics has contributed to a better understanding of diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Her group collaborates widely and leverages NIH Intramural resources to accelerate translational discovery.