Deputy Director
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health
Nina F. Schor, MD, PhD is Deputy Director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Schor graduated cum laude from Yale University with a B.S. degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and as a Scholar of the House in Chemistry Research in 1975. She received her PhD in Medical Biochemistry from Rockefeller University and the laboratory of Dr. Anthony Cerami in 1980 and her MD from Cornell University Medical College in 1981. Dr. Schor pursued residency training in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital (1981-1983) and Child Neurology at the Longwood Area-Harvard Neurology Program (1983-1986) . During residency, she also pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Manfred Karnofsky at Harvard. During this time, she began her studies of neuroblastoma, aimed at understanding the neurobiology of this tumor and exploiting this understanding to design and test in preclinical models novel strategies for the therapy of chemoresistant neuroblastoma, and funded by the NINDS and NCI and many private foundations for 27 years. Dr. Schor has been the Carol Ann Craumer Professor of Pediatric Research, Chief of the Division of Child Neurology in the Department of Pediatrics, and Associate Dean for Medical Student Research at the University of Pittsburgh and Ihe William H. Eilinger Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, and Pediatrician-in-Chief at the University of Rochester. In January 2018, she became Deputy Director of NINDS. She currently serves as a Neurology Director for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
Sunday, July 18, 2021
10:05 AM – 10:35 AM ET
Sunday, July 18, 2021
10:05 AM – 10:35 AM ET
Sunday, July 18, 2021
12:35 PM – 1:05 PM ET
Sunday, July 18, 2021
12:35 PM – 1:05 PM ET