Dr. Lauren Meyers, Professor of Integrative Biology and Director of the Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation at The University of Texas at Austin, received her B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from Harvard University, and Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at Stanford University. In 2004, the MIT Technology Review named Lauren one of the top 100 global innovators under age 35 for her pioneering work in network-based modeling of infectious disease dynamics. Meyers is now striving to save lives by reinventing the way we track and stop deadly diseases.
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