Dr. Anne Schaefer is a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Vice-Chair of Neuroscience and Director of the Center for Glial Biology at the Friedman Brain Institute at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. Most recently, she became a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Aging in Cologne, Germany. Dr. Schaefer did her graduate studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the Charité University Berlin and The Rockefeller University in New York. She joined Mount Sinai to start her own laboratory in 2011 after the completion of her postdoctoral studies in Dr. Paul Greengard’s Laboratory at The Rockefeller University, New York. Her most recent work describes previously unknown mechanisms of microglia-mediated regulation of neuronal activity and survival. Dr. Schaefer has been awarded with the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, the Inaugural Landis Mentoring Award for Outstanding Mentorship by the NIH, a NARSAD Young Investigator Award, and was named a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences in 2014 and the Inventor of the Year 2018 by Mount Sinai.