Story Landis is an American neurobiologist and former director of the

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) is a part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). It conducts and funds research on brain and nervous system disorders and has a budget of just over US$2.03 billion. The ...

at the

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. She was director of the institute between September 1, 2003 and October 2014. Dr. Landis worked at NINDS since 1995, and was named Chair of the NIH Stem Cell Task Force in 2007.

Life

She received her undergraduate degree in biology from

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...

in 1967 and her Master's Degree and Ph.D. from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. 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

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. She is an elected fellow of the

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, the

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, and the

American Neurological Association The American Neurological Association (ANA) is a professional society of academic neurologists and neuroscientists devoted to advancing the goals of academic neurology; to training and educating neurologists and other physicians in the neurologic ...

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Story C. Landis, Ph.D.
*http://www.nih.gov/about/director/07312014_statement_landis.htm *http://www.npr.org/2013/02/18/172336350/new-project-would-map-the-human-brain {{DEFAULTSORT:Landis, Story Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American neuroscientists American women neuroscientists Case Western Reserve University faculty Harvard Medical School faculty Harvard University alumni Wellesley College alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science American women academics 21st-century American women Members of the National Academy of Medicine