| Elissa Hallem | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Neurobiologist |
| Workplaces: | UCLA |
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| Education: | Williams College (BA) Yale University (PhD) |
Elissa A. Hallem is an American neurobiologist. She won a 2012 MacArthur Fellowship.[1] [2] Hallem is Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies in the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics at UCLA.[3]
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.[4] She completed her post-doctoral training at California Institute of Technology in 2010.