The Stanton Laboratory works at the interface of neuroscience, engineering, and biotechnology. We aim to advance a personalized medicine pipeline for neurological disease by developing and leveraging novel discovery platforms and drug delivery paradigms...
Aggression is a fundamental behavior observed across species, shaping competition for resources, social hierarchies, and survival. When dysregulated, aggression is a core feature of many neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Despite its...
The BioTranslation Laboratory (BTL), based at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, develops biointelligent materials for precision therapeutics. We envision medicines that do more than carry...
Our lab studies how sensory cues become linked to adaptive or maladaptive responses through learning. Adaptive responses are necessary to develop, survive and thrive; maladaptive responses contribute to disorders across the lifespan. We study this...
Our research explores how we learn from our mistakes—a fundamental building block of intelligent behavior. As infants learning to walk, we take unsteady steps, fall, adjust, and eventually develop stable locomotion. This iterative cycle of action, error...
We are an interdisciplinary team of neurologists, neuroscientists, engineers, and rehabilitation scientists working together to improve recovery for patients after stroke. New therapies are urgently needed to cure the staggering worldwide disability that...
Our lab studies the molecular and cellular basis of novel organismic physiology and behavior. We emphasize curiosity-driven science and exploration, using comparative approaches featuring a range of unusual and specialized organisms that are uniquely...
Human-machine integration seeks to harmonize advanced engineering with the human body’s complex biological systems, a task that remains challenging due to the limitations of current technology and the separation between disciplines like engineering...
The brain-CSF interface: Neural stem cells and disease
Defined numbers of neural precursor cells are remarkably synchronized in their task to form the brain, yet no central command coordinating this process has been identified. Neural precursors divide...