Andrea Santi, PhD

Andrea grew up in Madrid, Spain, where she studied the role of IGF-I in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders with Prof. Torres-Aleman at the Cajal Institute. As a result of this work, she obtained her PhD in Neuroscience from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She moved to Baltimore to do a brief postdoc at the Hussman Institute for Autism with Dr. Shiyong Huang, where her work focused on the effects of interneuron dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorder. She then joined the Kuchibholta Lab to understand the function of inhibitory circuits in sensorimotor learning and context-dependent memory retrieval in Alzheimer's disease. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking and biking, to travel, and taking on impossible reading challenges.

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