Coryse St. Hillaire-Clarke PhD
Program Director, Division of Neuroscience, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MarylandDr. St. Hillaire-Clarke joined the NIA Division of Neuroscience as a Program Director in August 2016. She oversees the Sensory and Motor Disorders of Aging Program which supports research on mechanisms of normal aging and disease-related changes in motor, visual, auditory, somatosensory, proprioceptive, vestibular and chemosensory functions. She also represents the institute on a number of trans-NIH working groups including Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) and the Music and Health working group. Prior to joining the NIA, Dr. St. Hillaire-Clarke spent six years as a Health Program Specialist at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) where she helped manage the Parkinson’s Disease Biomarkers Program (PDBP) and engaged in several NINDS strategic planning efforts.
Dr. St. Hillaire-Clarke received her PhD in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University where she conducted research to identify the key cellular and molecular events that underlie the growth and survival of neurons in the peripheral nervous system.