Beatrice Pforr

Beatrice is from Boston, MA and attended Northeastern University for her undergraduate degree in Bioengineering. While at Northeastern, she completed two six-month-long co-ops, the first at Dr. Scherzer’s Parkinson’s Neurogenomics laboratory at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the second at Moderna Therapeutics in the Rare Disease group. After graduating from Northeastern in 2022, Beatrice joined Dr. Matthew Disney’s lab at UF Scripps as a research assistant. There she worked on the design and evaluation of RNA-targeting small molecules as novel therapeutic modalities. In the Fall of 2024, Beatrice began her PhD at Rice University in the Synthetic, Systems, and Physical Biology program and joined the Iyer lab at the end of her first semester. She is excited to continue to enhance her understanding of neuroscience and be able to contribute to rare neurological disease research. In addition, she is keen to work on tool development for in vivo visualization.
In her free time, Beatrice likes to watch indie movies and run with her dog.