Sonja W. Scholz

Sonja W. Scholz is an Austrian neurologist and neurogeneticist. She is a Senior Investigator and chief of the Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, where her laboratory focuses on the molecular genetics of neurodegenerative diseases and dementias.

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. 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. 2020 — Soriano Prize and Lectureship; awarded by the American Neurological Association 2019 — Norman Geschwind Award in Behavioral Neurology; awarded by the American Academy of Neurology.