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Larissa Borys
Research Assistant, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Vice President of External Events
Penn Neuroscience Society
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Larissa is a recent graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, having completed her studies in May 2023 with a major in Neuroscience and a minor in Health Care Management from the Wharton School of Business. She served as a Vice President for the Penn Neuroscience Society and conducted research in the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia’s (CHOP) neurology department, which directed her Senior Honors Thesis. Larissa led University tours under the Kite and Key Society and volunteered at Penn Medicine’s Center for Surgical Health to ensure that local community members had access to vital surgical procedures (an initiative that she is still involved in today). She co-founded the Fuel Our Heroes at Penn chapter which raised funds for healthcare workers at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania during the pandemic. Larissa was also a teaching assistant for neuroscience courses and general chemistry labs, a committee member of the Wharton Undergraduate Healthcare Club, and a general member of the Penn Women’s Biomedical Society and Greek life. During her first two years of undergrad, she was a Research Assistant at Penn’s Linguistic Data Consortium studying automated web-based methods for tracking neurocognitive health. Larissa interned on the Medical Affairs team at Clario for two summers of her undergraduate career, eventually publishing an abstract to the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) examining eligibility criteria for subjects entering clinical trials. With plans to apply to medical school in 2024, Larissa is currently working as a Research Assistant at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain. In her free time, Larissa enjoys playing tennis, running in the city, traveling, and solving the daily NYTimes crossword puzzle.