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Allison R. Foilb, PhD, focuses her research at the intersection of stress and learning. She began her research while an undergraduate at Barnard College where she studied the development of the hormonal stress response. As a graduate student at Boston College, Dr. Foilb studied the neural mechanisms...

Isabelle M. Rosso is the director of the Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders Laboratory which studies neurobiological phenotypes of emotional disorders, and relates them to behavioral and clinical phenotypes. Psychiatric research has reached an exciting juncture where the neuroscience knowledge...

Dr. Bolshakov received his PhD from the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and performed his post-doctoral studies at Columbia University under the mentorship of Dr. Steven Siegelbaum. He joined McLean Hospital in 1999 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor at...

Elif Engin, PhD, grew up in Ankara, Turkey, and earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara. She completed her doctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Dallas Treit in Edmonton, Alberta, and was awarded a PhD Thesis Award from the Canadian...

Sabina Berretta, MD, began her research training under the mentorship of Dr. V. Perciavalle at University of Catania, Italy. In 1990, she joined the laboratory directed by Dr. A. M. Graybiel in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, working neural circuitry linking the motor cortex...

Dr. Ole Isacson is a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and founding director of the Neuroregeneration Research Institute at McLean Hospital. His work is focused on the understanding and treatments of neurodegenerative disease, with particular emphasis on distinguishing critical...

Penny Hallett, PhD, is an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and co-director of the Neuroregeneration Research Institute (NRI). She received her PhD from the University of Manchester, UK, and completed post-doctoral studies at Massachusetts General Hospital, moving in 2006...

Young Cha, PhD, received his PhD in stem cell biology from CHA University in Korea. During his PhD studies, his scientific interest was to identify novel factors which are involved in the maintenance of self-renewality and pluripotency of embryonic stem cells. He joined the Molecular Neurobiology...

Woori Kim, PhD, received her BSc, MSc, and PhD in biochemistry from Hanyang University. She joined the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory in 2014 as a post-doctoral fellow and is now an investigator.

Josephine C. McGowan, PhD, investigates the molecular mechanisms of resilience to stress. She began her research while an undergraduate at Barnard College in Dr. Christine Ann Denny’s laboratory, where she continued working as a graduate student at Columbia University. Dr. McGowan studied the...

Dominika J. Burek, PhD, studied neuroinflammation during her BA in cellular neuroscience at Colgate University and the molecular biology of addiction and depression as a research assistant in Dr. Eric Nestler’s laboratory at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. As a graduate student in Dr...

Caroline B. Palavicino-Maggio, PhD, is a basic neuroscientist who studies the fundamental neurological basis of social behavior using the fruit fly model system’s genetic approaches. In 2016, she joined the laboratory of Dr. Ed Kravitz in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Her...

Dr. Cole Korponay’s research program in human neuroimaging and behavior emerges from a fusion of diverse training backgrounds. As a post-doctoral research fellow, via a F32-funded neuroanatomy-neuroimaging collaboration with Dr. Suzanne Haber and NIDA, he is leveraging “ground-truth” anatomy data to...

Lucas Trambaiolli, MSc, PhD, has a background in biomedical engineering and neuroscience. His doctoral work combined multimodal neuroimaging, real-time signal processing, and machine learning to identify functional connectivity patterns associated with emotion regulation. He targeted these patterns...

Shifali Singh, PhD, is a licensed clinical neuropsychologist and director of the Digital Neuropsychology and Brain Health Laboratory within the Advanced Bioinformatics and Computational Discovery Hub and Institute for Technology in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. Her clinical research focuses on...

Claudia Lopes, PhD, is interested in developing human pluripotent stem cell-derived three-dimensional organoid culture systems that recapitulate distinct cerebral regions. These models not only capture key progenitor populations that give rise to mature and region-specific neuronal subtypes, but...

Lauren A. M. Lebois, PhD, is a cognitive neuroscientist focused on how the mind, brain, and body adapt following trauma. She prioritizes translating scientific advances into accessible, compelling, and clinically relevant insights. Her National Institute of Mental Health-funded research program...