Principal Investigator
Susan Wray, Ph.D.
Email: susan.wray@nih.gov
Dr. Susan Wray received her B.A. degree from Middlebury College and her M.S, and Ph.D. degrees from University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry where she worked on development of neuroendocrine systems associated with puberty. She continued her work on neuroendocrine systems as a postdoctoral fellow with Harold Gainer in NICHD.
In 1992 she became a faculty member of NINDS as a Unit Chief in the Laboratory of Neurochemistry and in 1999 became Chief of the newly created Cellular and Developmental Neurobiology Section. She has served as a council member of the International Society of Neuroendocrinology, was a founding member of the American Neuroendocrine Society and is presently a council member for the Pan American Neuroendocrine Society.
Dr. Wray has trained over 30 postdoctoral fellows. CDNS also has a strong training program for college, post-college students and graduate students. Dr. Wray's laboratory is studying developmental cues underlying neuronal migration, and neurogenesis as well as the regulation of neuroendocrine cells essential for reproduction. Collaborations with clinical programs examine mutations in patients with delayed puberty and/or infertility.