CurePSP Genetics Program: Year One Progress and Updates

About the Webinar

Join us on October 21st as Drs. Wills and Scholz describe the progress made in the first year of the CurePSP Genetics Program, including the clinical characteristics of the hundreds of people who have signed up to participate and the genetic results to date. This work is ongoing and CurePSP will present results as they become available.

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About Anne-Marie Wills, MD, MPH 

Dr. Wills' research focuses on genetic and environmental risk factors for neurodegenerative diseases, particularly PSP and Parkinson's disease. She is the director of the CurePSP Center of Care at MGH which provides multidisciplinary care for people with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. She is the PI of the CurePSP Genetics Program and Co-PI of the multicenter Progressive Supranuclear Palsy Clinical Trial Platform (PTP).

About Sonja Scholz, MD, PhD

Dr. Sonja W. Scholz, M.D., Ph.D., is a board-certified neurologist specializing in neurodegeneration. She is a tenured Lasker Clinical Research Scholar leading the Neurodegenerative Diseases Research Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). In addition, she serves as an Adjunct Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins University, where she actively consults in specialized clinics.  Dr. Scholz is a physician-scientist best known for her research into the genetic underpinnings of parkinsonism syndromes. She has pioneered the use of advanced genomic techniques to uncover genetic risk factors and molecular links in age-related neurodegenerative diseases. As a highly cited researcher in her field, Dr. Scholz's outstanding scholarly contributions to neurodegenerative diseases have resulted in numerous publications in top journals. Her influential research has earned her several distinguished awards, such as the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral Neurology, the Lasker Clinical Research Scholar Award, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. These honors highlight her innovative impact on neurology and her dedication to improving patient care and scientific understanding