David Gutmann, MD, PhD, the Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor and director of the Washington University Neurofibromatosis (NF) Center, recently was appointed to the Advisory Council for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The mission of NINDS is to seek fundamental knowledge about the brain and nervous system and to use that knowledge to reduce the burden of neurological disease.