Sondra Schlesinger (born July 10, 1934) is an American virologist and professor emeritus at the Washington University School of Medicine.
She was an undergraduate at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, graduating in 1956 with a degree in chemistry; she remained at the same institution for doctoral work and received her Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1960.
She remained at the school for the rest of her career, with sabbaticals and visiting positions at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories and at Harvard University.
With her husband and fellow WUSTL professor Milton Schlesinger,[3] she co-edited a major reference work on togaviruses and flaviviruses.
[4] Schlesinger was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1996[5] and served in a number of leadership positions for the organization.