Rita Sattler, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Barrow Neurological Institute. Dr. Sattler received her master’s and doctorate degrees in neurophysiology from the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Sattler stayed at Johns Hopkins University and attained the academic rank of assistant professor of Neurology, with a secondary appointment in the Brain Science Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Sattler is a member of the American Society for Neuroscience and the American Society for Neurochemistry. She is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including the Governor’s Gold Medal for the highest academic achievement in graduate studies at the University of Toronto, a Human Frontier Science Program Long-term Fellowship, and a Howard Hughes Postdoctoral Fellowship. She currently serves as grant reviewer for several national and international disease foundations as well as the NIH.

synaptic biology, neurodegenerative disorders, neuronal cell death