Kara Marshall, Ph.D.

Marshall earned a Ph.D. in cellular, molecular and biomedical sciences from Columbia University and did postdoctoral work at Scripps Research Institute in the Patapoutian Lab. In 2022, Marshall established her lab to study internal mechanosensation as an assistant professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine and the Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital with support from the Robert and Janice McNair Foundation as a McNair Scholar. She is a Freeman Hrabowski Scholar with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.