Lauren Ullrich, Ph.D.

Lauren Ullrich focuses on funding opportunities supporting late-stage graduate students, postdocs, and faculty, as well as mentoring networks across critical career transition points. She received her PhD and MS in Neuroscience from Georgetown University, researching memory in early Alzheimer's disease for her thesis and also published on teaching, pedagogy, and professional development in science. She received her BA from Swarthmore College in psychobiology. Prior to coming to NINDS as a AAAS Science & Technology Fellow, Lauren worked for the Society for Neuroscience in a range of policy and programmatic areas, including government and public affairs; scientific rigor and reproducibility; workforce and training; and animals in research.