Search

William Allen

2014 HERTZ FELLOW

Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows

MAKING HISTORY

William “Will” Allen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Will was previously an independent Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows where he collaborated with Xiaowei Zhuang, Jonathan Weissman, Catherine Dulac, and Feng Zhang at Harvard and MIT to map brain aging and to develop and apply tools for large-scale in vivo pooled genetic screens. Prior to that, he completed his PhD at Stanford under the guidance of advisors Karl Deisseroth and Liqun Luo. He developed new tools to map the structure and function of the mammalian brain at a large scale and high resolution, and applied these tools to uncover the neural mechanisms of thirst.

Will received a BS from Brown University and was a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where he received his master’s degree.

EDUCATION

Graduate Studies
Stanford University
Neuroscience

Undergraduate Studies
Brown University

SELECTED AWARDS

2012, Churchill Scholar, Winston Churchill Foundation of U.S.
2019, Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2019-2022, Society of Fellows, Harvard University
2020, Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists

 

IMPACT STORY

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consecteta aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in.ur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in.

READ MORE
Hertz Foundation

GET IN TOUCH WITH William Allen

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consecteta aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in.ur adipiscing elit,

Support the Next Generation of Innovators

LEARN MORE