Laura Lewis, Ph.D.
Athinoula A. Martinos Associate Professor of IMES and EECS, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAssociate Faculty, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General HospitalLaura Lewis’s website
Laura Lewis is the Athinoula A. Martinos associate professor in IMES and EECS at MIT and associate faculty at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from MIT and completed postdoctoral research in biomedical imaging technologies at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Her research develops techniques for imaging the human brain and applies them to study how sleep modulates human brain function.
Project:
Glial mechanisms by which sleep preserves cognitive function and plasticity in aging