Dr. Lauren Orifice receives the 2022 McKnight Scholar Award
Congratulations to Lauren Orifice, for being selected as one of six recipients of the 2022 McKnight Scholar Award. The McKnight Scholar Awards are granted to young scientists who are in the early stages of establishing their own independent laboratories and research careers and who have demonstrated a commitment to neuroscience.
Dr. Lauren Orifice’s research focuses on the development, function and dysfunction of somatosensory systems. The McKnight was awarded for her project on “Development, Function, and Dysfunction of Somatosensory and Viscerosensory Systems in Autism Spectrum Disorder – Researching the role of peripheral sensory dysfunction as a contributor to ASD phenotypes, and seeking therapies that restore normal function to those peripheral systems to ameliorate these phenotypes.”
Dr. Orifice is an Assistant in the Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School. She joined the IDDRC in 2021.