Ed Boyden

Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and McGovern Institute, Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Media Arts and Sciences, and Biological Engineering
Ed Boyden's group develops tools for analyzing and repairing complex biological systems such as the brain, and applies them systematically to reveal ground truth principles of biological function as well as to repair these systems.
Research Areas
optogenetics, neurotechnology, circuits, oscillations, deep brain stimulation

Laura Lewis

Athinoula A. Martinos Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
Lewis develops multimodal approaches for imaging the human brain, and applies them to study the neural circuitry that controls sleep, and the consequences of sleep for brain function.
Research Areas
Sleep, fMRI, EEG, attention, depression, aging, neurodegeneration, thalamus

Morgan Sheng

Core Institute Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
As Co-Director of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Sheng helps to shape the center’s scientific vision and direction, and oversees the center’s efforts to develop therapeutics for schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses.
Research Areas
synaptic plasticity, neurodegeneration, therapeutics, psychiatric disorders
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