Primary Job Title Co-founder and Director Primary Organization TScan Therapeutics
Location Brookline, Massachusetts, United States Regions Greater Boston Area, East Coast, New England Gender Female
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Lea Hachigian is a Principal at Longwood Fund and President and co-founder of Longwood portfolio company TScan Therapeutics. She received her Ph.D. from MIT in molecular and cellular neuroscience where she was a NSF Graduate Research Fellow. As a graduate student in the Heiman Lab at the Broad Institute, Hachigian studied the determinants of
neuronal identity and vulnerability in disease. Prior to her doctorate, Hachigian received an A.B. from Harvard University where she graduated magna cum laude with high honors in Neurobiology and received a certificate in Mind Brain and Behavior. While at Harvard, Hachigian researched genetic models of developmental disorders in the Fagiolini/Hensch lab at Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School. She has received numerous fellowships for her research and multiple teaching awards for her work with both undergraduate and graduate students.
