Lara M. Lange

Lara M. Lange, MD, is a clinician-scientist specializing in neurogenetics and movement disorders, with a particular focus on the genetic architecture of Parkinson’s disease. She began her clinical training in neurology and her research career at the University of Lübeck, Germany, before joining the Laboratory of Neurogenetics at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, USA, as a postdoctoral research fellow. She is currently based at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Germany, where she continues her specialist training in neurology alongside her research activities. Her research focuses on understanding the clinical implications of genetic variation in Parkinson’s disease, leveraging large-scale, ancestrally diverse genetic datasets to improve genetic diagnosis, risk assessment, and patient stratification for targeted therapies. She is actively involved in the Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2), where she co-leads the Translational Genetics Worki