Elissa Hallem

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. 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. She completed her post-doctoral training at California Institute of Technology in 2010. == Honors and awards ==

• 2012- MacArthur Fellowship • 2012- Searle Scholars Program • 2013- UCLA Dean's Recognition Award • 2014- NIH Director's New Innovator Award • 2020- UCLA Faculty Mentor Award ==References==