Anna Pfalzer, PhD, MS

Dr. Anna C. Pfalzer is a Research Assistant Professor of Neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, where her research focuses on identifying early biomarkers of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders, with a particular emphasis on rare, genetic conditions. Her early work examined cognitive and molecular changes in children at risk for Huntington's Disease, identifying plasma-based biomarkers that appear decades before clinical onset, which led to a broader interest in shared proteomic and metabolomic signatures across neurodevelopmental disorders, and she now leads biomarker discovery efforts involving multi-omics analyses across more than 35 rare, genetic neurodevelopmental conditions, collaborating closely with patient advocacy foundations.