Margaret Sutherland, Ph.D
 

Dr. Sutherland serves as a Program Director in the Neurodegeneration Cluster at NINDS. She currently oversees research grant portfolios and programs in: i) Huntington’s Disease; ii) Frontotemporal Dementia and iii) basic and clinical studies supporting the genetics, protein and mitochondrial dynamics, synuclein biology and stem cell based-research associated with Parkinson’s Disease. Prior to joining the NINDS, Dr. Sutherland was a faculty member in the Center for Neuroscience Research at the Children’s National Medical Center (CNMC), where she directed NIH-funded research programs on excitotoxicity mechanisms in neurodegeneration and epilepsy and served as director of the CNMC Transgenic Core facility.