M. Elizabeth Ross, MD, PhD, is the Nathan Cummings Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine in Manhattan. She heads the Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Development in the Brain and Mind Research Institute and directs the Center for Neurogenetics (CNG) at WCM. Her Laboratory and translational Center study human genomics and genetically driven biological mechanisms leading to developmental disorders of the nervous system including NTDs.