Tracy Young-Pearse is an Associate Professor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School and the Dennis J. Selkoe Distinguished Chair in Neurology Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She received her undergraduate degree from Skidmore College and then entered the Biomedical and Biological Sciences program at Harvard Medical School earning her Ph.D. in Genetics. She established her independent lab in 2010 in the Ann Romney Center for Neurological Diseases. She is the co-Director of the Human Nervous System Diseases Program of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and is the Vice Chair of Basic Research in Neurology at BWH.