Laura Lewis, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Boston University College of Engineering
Biomedical Engineering

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BS, McGill University



Laura Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from MIT and conducted postdoctoral research as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. She is the recipient of the Society for Neuroscience Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award, the One Mind Rising Star Award, the 1907 Trailblazer Award, the Sloan Fellowship, the Searle Scholar Award, the McKnight Scholar Award, and the Pew Biomedical Scholar Award.


Advanced neuroimaging of arousal-state transition network dynamics in the human brain
09/20/2022 - 09/19/2024 (Key Person / Mentor)
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health
5F31MH127916-02

Neuromodulation of neural dynamics and perception across sleep and wakefulness
07/01/2020 - 06/30/2024 (PI)
Searle Scholars Program


Imaging neurovascular physiology in persistent fatigue after COVID-19
07/01/2021 - 12/31/2023 (PI)
NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke
1R21NS123412-01

Multimodal imaging of intersecting network dynamics underlying sleep and mood in depression
12/15/2019 - 12/31/2023 (PI)
One Mind Foundation


Whole-brain imaging of dopamine dynamics in sleep and wakefulness
03/01/2020 - 11/01/2023 (PI)
The Smith Family Foundation


Investigating sleep and cerebrospinal fluid flow waves in major depression
12/15/2020 - 08/31/2023 (PI)
1907 Research


Subcortical circuit dynamics underlying human sleep and wakefulness
07/29/2021 - 07/31/2023 (PI)
The Pew Charitable Trusts


Neural dynamics of human sleep
09/15/2021 - 06/30/2023 (PI)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation


Imaging electrophysiological and fluid dynamics in the sleeping brain
07/01/2021 - 06/30/2023 (PI)
The McKnight Foundation


SPI Stevens: Glial mechanisms by which sleep preserves cognitive function and plasticity in aging
11/01/2020 - 06/30/2023 (PI)
Simons Foundation


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Yr Title Project-Sub Proj Pubs
2024 Neural circuit control of fluid and solute clearance during sleep 5U19NS128613-03
2024 Project 4: Linking neural, hemodynamic, and multiscale cerebrospinal fluid flow measures in humans 5U19NS128613-03-8811
2024 Neuroimaging the impact of respiration and respiratory-gated neuromodulation on human glymphatic physiology 5R01AT011429-04
2024 Sleep-dependent modulation of cerebrospinal fluid flow in aging 5R01AG070135-05
2023 Project 4: Linking neural, hemodynamic, and multiscale cerebrospinal fluid flow measures in humans 5U19NS128613-02-8811
2023 Neural circuit control of fluid and solute clearance during sleep 5U19NS128613-02
2023 Sleep-dependent modulation of cerebrospinal fluid flow in aging and across genetic risk for Alzheimers disease 5R01AG070135-03
2023 Sleep-dependent modulation of cerebrospinal fluid flow in aging 7R01AG070135-04
2022 Project 4: Linking neural, hemodynamic, and multiscale cerebrospinal fluid flow measures in humans 1U19NS128613-01-8811
2022 Neural circuit control of fluid and solute clearance during sleep 1U19NS128613-01
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  1. Cicero NG, Fultz NE, Jeong H, Williams SD, Gomez D, Setzer B, Warbrick T, Jaschke M, Gupta R, Lev M, Bonmassar G, Lewis LD. High-quality multimodal MRI with simultaneous EEG using conductive ink and polymer-thick film nets. J Neural Eng. 2024 Nov 05; 21(6). PMID: 39419105
     
  2. Olchanyi MD, Augustinack J, Haynes RL, Lewis LD, Cicero N, Li J, Destrieux C, Folkerth RD, Kinney HC, Fischl B, Brown EN, Iglesias JE, Edlow BL. Histology-guided MRI segmentation of brainstem nuclei critical to consciousness. medRxiv. 2024 Oct 18. PMID: 39399006; DOI: 10.1101/2024.09.26.24314117;
     
  3. Marchant JK, Ferris NG, Grass D, Allen MS, Gopalakrishnan V, Olchanyi M, Sehgal D, Sheft M, Strom A, Bilgic B, Edlow B, Hillman EMC, Juttukonda MR, Lewis L, Nasr S, Nummenmaa A, Polimeni JR, Tootell RBH, Wald LL, Wang H, Yendiki A, Huang SY, Rosen BR, Gollub RL. Mesoscale Brain Mapping: Bridging Scales and Modalities in Neuroimaging - A Symposium Review. Neuroinformatics. 2024 Oct; 22(4):679-706. PMID: 39312131
     
  4. Cicero NG, Klimova M, Lewis LD, Ling S. Differential cortical and subcortical visual processing with eyes shut. J Neurophysiol. 2024 Jul 01; 132(1):54-60. PMID: 38810261; DOI: 10.1152/jn.00073.2024;
     
  5. Gomez DEP, Polimeni JR, Lewis LD. The temporal specificity of BOLD fMRI is systematically related to anatomical and vascular features of the human brain. bioRxiv. 2024 Feb 02. PMID: 38352610; DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.01.578428;
     
  6. Jacob LPL, Bailes SM, Williams SD, Stringer C, Lewis LD. Distributed fMRI dynamics predict distinct EEG rhythms across sleep and wakefulness. bioRxiv. 2024 Feb 01. PMID: 38352426; DOI: 10.1101/2024.01.29.577429;
     
  7. Bailes SM, Gomez DEP, Setzer B, Lewis LD. Resting-state fMRI signals contain spectral signatures of local hemodynamic response timing. Elife. 2023 Aug 11; 12. PMID: 37565644; DOI: 10.7554/eLife.86453;
     
  8. Williams SD, Setzer B, Fultz NE, Valdiviezo Z, Tacugue N, Diamandis Z, Lewis LD. Correction: Neural activity induced by sensory stimulation can drive large-scale cerebrospinal fluid flow during wakefulness in humans. PLoS Biol. 2023 Apr; 21(4):e3002123. PMID: 37099747; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002123;
     
  9. Levitt J, Yang Z, Williams SD, Lütschg Espinosa SE, Garcia-Casal A, Lewis LD. EEG-LLAMAS: A low-latency neurofeedback platform for artifact reduction in EEG-fMRI. Neuroimage. 2023 Jun; 273:120092. PMID: 37028736; DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120092;
     
  10. Williams SD, Setzer B, Fultz NE, Valdiviezo Z, Tacugue N, Diamandis Z, Lewis LD. Neural activity induced by sensory stimulation can drive large-scale cerebrospinal fluid flow during wakefulness in humans. PLoS Biol. 2023 Mar; 21(3):e3002035. PMID: 36996009; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002035;
     
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The battle to boost our deep sleep – and help stop dementia

The Guardian 3/13/2023

Deep Sleep Protects Against Alzheimer's, Growing Evidence Shows

NPR 11/17/2020

Variants in Water Channel Gene Tied to More Restful Sleep

The Scientist 5/12/2020

Sleeping Brain Waves Draw a Healthy Bath for Neurons

Quanta Magazine 12/16/2019

Here’s How Sleep Removes Poisons From Your Brain, Protecting You From Alzheimer’s as Nothing Else Can

Inc. 11/22/2019

This is how a good night’s sleep cleans toxins from your brain

WIRED 11/10/2019

During deep sleep, the brain does housekeeping

Reuters 11/7/2019

Watch: Spinal Fluid Waves Flow Into Your Brain As You Sleep

Futurity 11/7/2019

To decrease risk of Alzheimer’s, quantity and quality of sleep matters, study finds

NY Daily News 11/4/2019

Brain’s Cerebrospinal Fluid Pulses During Sleep

Sleep Review 11/3/2019

Scientists Now Know How Sleep Cleans Toxins From the Brain

WIRED Science – Spoken Edition 11/3/2019

How deep sleep scrubs your brain of toxins

Mother Nature Network 11/1/2019

Brain toxins cleansed during sleep could prevent Alzheimer’s

New York Post 11/1/2019

The only detox you need is sleep—but it’s not totally clear why

Popular Science 11/1/2019

Deep Sleep Gives Your Brain a Deep Clean

Scientific American 11/1/2019

To decrease risk of Alzheimer’s, quantity and quality of sleep matters, study finds

Boston 25 News 11/1/2019

A good night’s sleep could protect against dementia because the body ‘washes’ toxic proteins out of the brain, study

Daily Mail 11/1/2019

Sleeping Washes Our Brains Clean of Unwanted Toxins, New Study Finds

Interesting Engineering 11/1/2019

Can Sleep Trigger Rhythmic Power Washing In The Brain?

Medical Daily 11/1/2019

How good night’s sleep can brainwash away dementia

The Times 11/1/2019

Researchers discover your brain has a literal “rinse cycle”

Inverse 10/31/2019

A type of brainwave may help clean your brain while you sleep

New Scientist 10/31/2019

U.S. Biotech Amgen Strikes Major Deal to Expand China Presence

Fortune 10/31/2019

How Deep Sleep May Help The Brain Clear Alzheimer’s Toxins

WBUR 10/31/2019

Sleep may trigger rhythmic power washing in the brain

Science News Magazine 10/31/2019

Scientists Now Know How Sleep Cleans Toxins From the Brain

WIRED 10/31/2019

Deep Sleep May ‘Rinse’ Day’s Toxins From Brain

Health Day 10/31/2019

Waves of Fluid Bathe the Sleeping Brain, Perhaps to Clear Waste

The Scientist 10/31/2019

2021 1907 Trailblazer Award
2021 Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow
2021 Pew Scholar Award
2021 McKnight Scholar Award
2021 Sloan Research Fellow
2020 NARSAD Young Investigator Award
2020 Smith Family Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research
2020 Searle Scholar Award
2019 One Mind Rising Star Award
2018 eLife Travel Award
2017 NIMH, NIH: K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
2017 Winter Conference on Brain Research: Travel Fellow
2017 Organization for Human Brain Mapping: Merit Abstract Award
2017 Society for Neuroscience: Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award
2016 Havard: Mind Brain Behavior Small Faculty Research Award
2016 Harvard University: William F. Milton Fund Award
2015 the National Academy of Sciences: Kavli Fellow
2014 Gordon Research Conference MERIT Award
2014 Harvard University: Junior Fellowship, Society of Fellows
2014-2015 Cosyne Travel Award
2014-2015 Cosyne Travel Award
2013 American Society of Anesthesiologists: Best Abstract in Clinical Science Award
2012 Cosyne Travel Award
2011 Walle Nauta Award: Excellence in Graduate Teaching
2010 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR): Doctoral Research Award
2008 Quebec Research Council (FQRNT): Masters Research Award
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