Lauren Orefice, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator

orefice@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu

Lauren received her Ph.D. from Georgetown University in the lab of Dr. Baoji Xu. She then performed her postdoctoral studies in Dr. David Ginty’s lab at Harvard Medical School. The Orefice lab opened in early 2019 at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Lauren is the winner of the 2018 Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation and the 2019 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology. She is also a K99/R00 recipient (NINDS), a Klingenstein-Simons Fellow, a Smith Family Biomedical Research awardee, a Searle Scholar and a Pew Biomedical Research Scholar. Lauren is a 2021 New York Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Neuroscience Investigator and a 2022 McKnight Scholar.

Kelsey Clausing
Thesis Graduate Student
Harvard Program in Neuroscience

Clare Howard, M.D. Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Neonatology Fellow at BCH

Charline Kambrun, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Youngwoo Noh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Yao Zhou, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Lyuba Bolkhovitinov
Thesis Graduate Student
Harvard Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program

Herriet Hsieh
Thesis Graduate Student
Harvard Program in Neuroscience

Zach McKenzie
Thesis Graduate Student
Harvard Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program

Karen San Agustin
Thesis Graduate Student
Harvard Program in Neuroscience

Emily Temple
Thesis Graduate Student
Harvard Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program

Diane Sacchetti
Administrative Assistant

Colette Brochu
Emmanuel College

Brianna Cabezas
Boston University

Claire Crichfield
Emmanuel College

Celia D’Apice
Emmanuel College

Nour Farhat
Emmanuel College

Joseph Grassi
Emmanuel College

Nicole Lu
Harvard University

Esmé Marini-Rapoport
Boston University

Sydney Pollock
Northeastern University

Sarah Ratnayake
Northeastern University

Isabella Raymond
Northeastern University

Thushar Santhosh
Northeastern University

Conner Hill
Research Assistant
(2022-2025)
Now: Med Student
at Johns Hopkins University

Kame Diba
Undergraduate Student
(2023-2025)
Now: Computational Science Research

James Donahue
Research Assistant
(2021-2025)
Now: Ph.D. Student at
Georgetown University

Yuki Dai
Graduate Student
(2020-2025)
Now: Postdoc at Westlake University

Anna DiBona
Undergraduate Student
(2022-2025)
Now: Clinical research prior to Med School

Ana Paulina Serrano
Undergraduate Student
(2023-2025)
Now: Med Student
at University of Penn.

Anuksha Wickramasinghe
Undergraduate Student
(2022-2024)
Now: Fulbright Scholar

Cindy Phan
Undergraduate Student
(2022-2024)
Now: Med Student at Stanford University

Lyndsey Mugford
Undergraduate Student
(2020-23)
Now: Rhodes Scholar
(U. of Cambridge)

Aixin Yue
Research Assistant
(2020-23)
Now: Ph.D. Student at
Harvard Medical School

Hillary Woodworth
Postdoc (2019-22)
Now: Psychiatry Resident at MGH

Shawn Mozeika
Research Assistant (2019-21)
Now: Ph.D. Student at Rockefeller U.

Jacqueline Mosko
Research Assistant (2019-20)
Now: Ph.D. Student at UCSD

Elisa Panzeri
Undergraduate Student (2019)
Now: M.A. Student at University of Göttingen