Leigh-Ana Rossitto
Graduate student
Leigh-Ana earned her BS in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT in 2018 and did undergraduate research on gene therapies for Huntington's Disease in the lab of Dr. Guoping Feng. Post-bacc, she worked as a research assistant in the lab of Dr. Mustafa Sahin at Boston Children's Hospital, investigating nutrient sensing in the brain and its role in epileptogenesis. After spending her whole life in New England, she decided to move to San Diego in 2020 to join UCSD’s Biomedical Sciences PhD program. In lab, she is interested in brain-body connections and is excited to be dissecting the molecular mechanism of the ketogenic diet in Alzheimer’s disease for her thesis work in the Chen Lab. Outside of the lab, you can find her trying out new coffee shops, breweries, and dog parks with her pup Murphy.
