Lisa Boulanger MS, MA, PhD

Lisa Boulanger is an Associate Professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Diego with Dr. Mu-ming Poo, and performed postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School with Dr. Carla Shatz. While at Harvard, Boulanger was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows. She then accepted a faculty position in Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, where she was the Silvio Varon Professor of Neuroregeneration, and moved her lab to the Princeton University in 2009. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Award, a Whitehall Foundation research award, the James Howard McGregor Prize, an Autism Speaks Research Fellowship, a Ray Thomas Edwards Foundation Fellowship, a Cure Autism Now Pilot Award, a Blasker Science and Technology Grant, a Term Gift from the Rampell Foundation, an Innovation Award, and awards from the New Jersey Commissions on Spinal Cord Research and Traumatic Brain Injury. The goal of research in Boulanger’s laboratory is to understand how neuro-immune crosstalk contributes to the formation, function, modification, and disruption of neural circuits.