Rebecca Schaffer

Rebecca joins Atalanta from Harvard University, where she spent three years as a research associate in the Joshua Sanes Lab in the molecular and cellular biology department. There, she worked on projects aiming to understand transcriptional mechanisms regulating mTOR mediated regeneration of retinal ganglion cells after optic nerve injury, and helped to profile transcriptomes of glaucomatous retinal cells using scRNA seq. Before that, she did a two-summer research fellowship in the Todd Sacktor lab working on Alzheimer’s related projects. Rebecca graduated from Smith College in 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Neuroscience.