Dr. Ling Wong is chief of staff for the Division of Neuroscience at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (since 2016), where she is involved with efforts in rare diseases, gene therapy, neurodevelopmental disorders, data science, and repository management.

Before NINDS, Dr. Wong conducted interdisciplinary research on service members with traumatic brain injury at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, D.C., studying mental health in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder or schizophrenia. She received her bachelor’s from Brown University in Human Biology – Brain & Behavior and her doctorate in neuroscience from the University of California, Davis, where she studied cognitive function in children affected by Fragile X syndrome or chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and used eye-tracking to develop a biomarker for the neurodegenerative disease Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome.