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14 Facts About Paola Arlotta

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Paola Arlotta was born on 1971 and is the Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University and chair of the Harvard Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology.

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Paola Arlotta's research focuses on the development of neuron types in the cerebral cortex.

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Paola Arlotta is best known for her work using 3D cerebral organoids derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells to study cortical development in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric disorders.

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Paola Arlotta attended liceo scientifico Duca degli Abruzzi in Gorizia.

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Paola Arlotta then completed her postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School under the mentorship of Jeffrey Macklis at Harvard Medical School.

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Paola Arlotta worked in both Boston Children's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital studying neurogenesis and CNS repair.

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Paola Arlotta was an instructor in Neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School until 2007.

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In 2007, Paola Arlotta joined the faculty at Harvard University with a laboratory on the Cambridge campus.

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Paola Arlotta became the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology as well as a Faculty at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

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Paola Arlotta was promoted to the Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard.

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In 2018, Paola Arlotta was appointed the Chair of the Stem Cell Biology and was appointed to the Quantitative Biology Executive Council.

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Paola Arlotta served on the Life Sciences jury for the Infosys Prize in 2019.

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Paola Arlotta's research focuses on understanding the molecular factors guiding the birth, differentiation and assembly of neurons in the cerebral cortex.

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Paola Arlotta's lab develops in vitro models of human cortical development and pathology using 3D cerebral organoids.