Kristen Hipolit

Kristen Hipolit

Associate Director

Dr. Hipolit is the Associate Director for the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program at Penn.  She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania under the mentorship of Dr. Harry Ischiropolous, where her researched focused on the cellular pathways involved in Parkinson’s Disease neurodegeneration.  Prior to that, she received her undergraduate degree in neuroscience from the College of William and Mary. She has been teaching at Penn since 2012, during which time she has held a variety of former roles including teaching biology courses for the post-bac program, teaching writing seminar courses on neuroscience topics, and serving as the director for a neuroscience summer program for high school students at Penn.