Lena Smirnova (she/her/hers)

Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, United States

Dr. Smirnova is an assistant professor at the Environmental Health and Engineering Department at Bloomberg School of Public Health and Center of Alternatives to Animal Testing, Johns Hopkins University, where she is leading Education Program and Program on microphysiological systems. She has joint appointments at Johns Hopkins School of Engineering and Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the development of new approach methodologies for developmental neurotoxicity testing and understanding gene environmental interactions in autism. She promotes the idea of organoid intelligence as a new field to address cognition with an in vitro brain model – a brain microphysiological system. She is a Co-organizer of a series of conferences on Microphysiological Systems (MPS) and is a president of the International MPS Society

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Presentation(s):

• Brain Micro(path)physiological Systems to model developing brain for drug and chemical testing

  Tuesday, February 6, 2024
  10:30 AM – 11:00 AM EST