| Laurie A. Boyer | |
| Workplaces: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma Mater: | Framingham State University University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School |
| Thesis Title: | Conserved features of chromatin remodeling enzymes : a dissertation |
| Thesis Url: | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47147047 |
| Thesis Year: | 2000 |
Laurie A. Boyer is an American biologist who is a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on the regulation of cell fate decisions and how faulty regulation leads to disease using human stem cells and mice as models.
Boyer is from Western Massachusetts.[1] She became interested in science and biology while in high school. She was an undergraduate student at Framingham State University where she studied biomedical sciences. She earned her PhD at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, where she researched chromatin remodeling enzymes.[2] [3] Boyer was a postdoctoral researcher at the MIT Whitehead Institute.
Boyer focuses on how cells make decisions early in development to give rise to tissues and organs and how faulty regulation leads to disease with a focus on the heart. [4]