Melina Hale

Melina Hale
Hale speaks to the National Science Foundation in 2014

Melina Elisabeth Hale is an American neuroscientist and biomechanist. She is the dean of the College and the William Rainey Harper Professor in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, at the University of Chicago.[1]

She studies zebrafish and other organisms to understand the role of mechanosensation in limb movement and how circuits in the brain and spinal cord control and coordinate movement more generally.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Three UChicago faculty members named 2019 AAAS fellows | University of Chicago News". news.uchicago.edu. 26 November 2019. Retrieved 2022-06-13.
  2. ^ "April 2017 UWIN seminar: Melina Hale, University of Chicago". UW Institute for Neuroengineering. 2017-03-24. Retrieved 2019-09-07.
  3. ^ "Melina Hale explains how her zebrafish research is helping to advance brain research". Science360 - Video Library. Retrieved 2019-09-07.