Elizabeth (Lisa) Samelson is faculty for Education in C/T Science at Harvard Catalyst and has been an advisor for the Grant Review and Support Program (GRASP) since 2017. She is an associate scientist at the Marcus Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife and associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Samelson has conducted numerous investigations in collaboration with the Framingham Study to identify risk factors for declines in musculoskeletal health with aging. She is co-founder of the Advanced Aging Research Training Seminar Series (AARTSS) in the Harvard Translational Research in Aging Training Program, mentoring trainees and early-stage investigators in methods of aging research. Her research areas include the contributions of vascular function declines with aging to skeletal fragility and the etiology of spinal degeneration. Samelson received a PhD in epidemiology from Columbia University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in musculoskeletal epidemiology at Boston University School of Medicine.
