Dr. Alice Stanton is an engineer and neuroscientist working at the interface of neurotechnology and biological discovery. She aims to invent technologies to accelerate therapeutic development, advance precision medicine approaches, and pioneer new strategies to improve drug delivery. She is an Assistant Professor and Investigator at Massachusetts General Brigham and Harvard Medical School in the Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Neurology. Dr. Stanton's work has been featured by outlets such as Scientific American, MIT News, and Drug Discovery Online. She has been recognized with numerous awards, including an NIH Director's New Innovator Award, Rising Star designation in Engineering in Health by Johns Hopkins and Columbia University, Rising Star award in Chemical Engineering by MIT, Young American Scientist designation by Scientific American, and the Danica Stanimirovic Memorial Award by the International Brain Barriers Society. ​​

Dr. Stanton received her B.S.E. from Princeton University in Chemical Engineering and Engineering Biology, Ph.D. from Stanford University in Bioengineering, and postdoctoral training at MIT.  She was the recipient of the NIA Research and Entrepreneurial Development Immersion Fellowship Award, NIA Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Kavanaugh Fellowship, and Convergence Scholars Program Fellowship.​