Paolo Arlotta, PhD

Chair, Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Principal Faculty, Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Dr. Paola Arlotta is a professor of stem cell and regenerative biology at Harvard University, and chair of Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (HSCRB). She is a principal faculty member at the Harvard
Stem Cell Institute, where she is co-director of the neuroscience program, an institute member at the Broad Institute, and an associate member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute. A leading neuroscientist, Dr. Arlotta is interested in understanding the molecular laws that govern the birth, differentiation, and assembly into working circuitry of clinically relevant neuron types in the cerebral cortex.