Elissa Hallem

Elissa Hallem
Elissa Hallem
	Photograph of Hallem in 2016
Nationality	American
Education	Williams College (BA); Yale University (PhD)
	Scientific career
Fields	Neurobiologist
Institutions	UCLA

Elissa A. Hallem is an American neurobiologist. She won a 2012 MacArthur Fellowship.^[1]^[2] Hallem is Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at UCLA.^[3]

Early life and education[edit]

Elissa Hallem was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1977. In 8th grade she enrolled in a summer program run by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth where she followed a course in psychology held at the Loyola Marymount University at Los Angeles. During high school, she worked in a UCLA lab with professor S. Lawrence Zipursky, a family friend.^{[citation needed]}

Hallem graduated from Williams College with a B.A. in biology and chemistry in 1999, and received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 2005.^[4] She completed her post-doctoral training at California Institute of Technology in 2010.^[1]

Honors and awards[edit]

2012- MacArthur Fellowship^[5]
2012- Searle Scholars Program^[6]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Elissa Hallem – MacArthur Foundation". Macfound.org. 2012-10-02. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
^ Adams, Jackie (November 29, 2012). "The Genius Series: MacArthur Winner Elissa Hallem". Los Angeles Magazine.
^ "Elissa Hallem, Ph.D." UCLA Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
^ Wolpert, Stuart (2012-10-02). "UCLA life scientist Elissa Hallem awarded MacArthur 'genius' grant / UCLA Newsroom". Newsroom.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2013-11-06.
^ "Elissa Hallem". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2023-11-03.
^ "Scholar Profile Elissa A. Hallem". Sealre Scholars Program. Archived from the original on September 5, 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2023.