Dheeraj Roy is a neuroscientist and Postdoctoral Associate at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and a member of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. His studies have taken him from Drexel University to Harvard University to MIT, helping him to realize his passion for neuroscience. Over the years, his research has led him to make groundbreaking discoveries in memory retrieval that could change the lives of Alzheimer’s sufferers.
Dheeraj Roy is a neuroscientist and Postdoctoral Associate at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and a member of The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. His studies have taken him from Drexel University to Harvard University to MIT, helping him to realize his passion for neuroscience. Over the years, his research has led him to make groundbreaking discoveries in memory retrieval that could change the lives of Alzheimer’s sufferers.
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