Allison Whitten earned her PhD from Vanderbilt University in 2018 and continued her scientific training at Vanderbilt as a National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) Postdoctoral Fellow. Her PhD and postdoctoral studies investigated the neurobiological causes of language impairments in neurological disorders. In 2020, she was awarded an AAAS Mass Media Fellowship to write for Discover Magazine. Her work has also appeared in WIRED, Quanta Magazine, Ars Technica, and more.
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