Neurogenetics and Clinical Neuroscience
Alice B. Schindler is a Board Certified Genetic Counselor with expertise in inherited neurological disorders. She received her Bachelor’s of Science degree in Biology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2000. She was an Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) recipient from 2000 to 2002, and worked in Heiner Westphal’s group in the Laboratory of Mammalian Genes and Human Development in NICHD. Alice obtained her Master's of Science in Genetic Counseling from the University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center and MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2004, and has practiced in Europe as well as the U.S.
Alice joined the Neurogenetics Branch in 2008, and is the lead genetic counselor for the Adult Section of the Neurogenetics Branch. Alice Schindler is the Lead Associate Investigator for a large study for inherited neurological disorders, and is the manger of the weekly Neurogenetics Clinic. Additionally, she provides consults for several clinics, including the NINDS Parkinson Disease/Movement Disorders Clinics, Neurodegenerative Clinic, and the Medical Genetics Consult Service at the NIH. She is an Associate Investigator on several natural history studies as well as clinical drug trials within NINDS and the primary Neurogenetics Liaison and Associate Investigator on a large study in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, providing Centralized Genome Sequencing to patients throughout the NIH. Alice enjoys mentoring Medical Genetics Fellows (NHGRI), Genetic Counseling Graduate Students (NHGRI), and IRTAs within several institutes of the NIH, interested in Medical Genetics/Genomics as well as Genetic Counseling.
Research Interests:
Alice Schindler's research focuses on genomic diagnosis and expanding the phenotypic spectrum of inherited, adult neuromuscular disorders, movement disorders, and neurodegenerative diseases. She has a special interest in making genetic and genomic testing more accessible to individuals and their families, as well as performing and advocating for additional research in the field of manifesting, female carriers of X-linked neurological disorders, such as Kennedy disease (KD)?Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA).
Publications:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?sort=date&term=Schindler+AB&cauthor_id=35640906
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?sort=date&term=Schindler+A&cauthor_id=36314214