Lauren Drake

Lauren Drake is a Biomedical Engineering PhD student at Vanderbilt University, where she uses in vitro models of the human brain to study neurodegenerative tau pathology. As a science journalism intern for Drug Discovery News, she is excited to cover novel advances in drug research. When she is not performing experiments or writing about science, she is cuddling with her cats, Willow and Huxley, and her rats, Mitski and Sappho.

Articles by Lauren Drake

May 20, 2022By Lauren Drake

Stimulating neurons reduces severe epileptic seizures and mortality in mice

Early intervention in a mouse model of Dravet Syndrome prevented onset of critical disease symptoms.

Two human kidneys are shown in blue and pink.

May 06, 2022By Lauren Drake

Organoids reveal the path to permanent kidney damage

Scientists identified a DNA repair gene that may hold the key to treating chronic kidney disease.