female faculty member Samantha Morris

Dr. Samantha Morris, Ph.D.

Faculty with Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Department of Systems Biology

Dr. Samantha Morris, Ph.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital & the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, is an Allen Distinguished Investigator, and New York Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Investigator. Dr. Morris trained as a Developmental Biologist at the University of Cambridge. In Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz’s group, she investigated mechanisms of cell fate decision-making in the earliest stages of development. She then joined the laboratory of George Daley at Harvard Medical School, where she focused on the analysis of gene regulatory networks to dissect and engineer cell identity. In 2015, she established her independent research group. In 2017, Dr. Morris was named a Vallee Foundation Scholar. In 2019, she was awarded the St. Louis Academy of Science Innovation Award and was named an Allen Distinguished Investigator. In 2020, she was named a Sloan Fellow, and a New York Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Investigator. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Society for Developmental Biology, serves on the editorial boards of Development, Cell Systems, and Developmental Cell, and is an Associate Editor at Development.