Barbara Stopschinski, M.D.

Barbara Stopschinski, M.D., is originally from Essen in Germany. She graduated from Medical School at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany in 2010. During this time, she completed her medical thesis with a focus on actin nucleation at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, Germany. She then completed 4 years of residency training in neurology at the University Hospital in Aachen, Germany. She joined the Diamond laboratory in the Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases here at UTSW as a postdoctoral fellow between 2015-2019, working on mechanisms of cellular tau uptake in tauopathies. She completed her residency in Neurology at UTSW in June 2023, and subsequently joined the faculty in July 2023 as Instructor and fellow in behavioral neurology. She has her own research laboratory with a focus on the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving tau uptake and propagation, and the mechanisms connecting neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in tauopathies. Her research interests are directly connected with her clinical practice, where she treats patients with cognitive impairment and dementia such as Alzheimer’s Disease and other neurodegenerative conditions.