Dr. Ivelisse Sanchez received her doctorate degree in Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1993. Her postdoctoral training in the Psychiatry Department at Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital was followed by an appointment as an Instructor at the department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School in 1998. She joined the Anatomy and Neurobiology department as an Assistant Professor in the spring of 2003.

Dr. Sanchez service commitments include membership in the Anatomy and Neurobiology Graduate Student committee, the Carnegie Initiative mentorship subcommittee and the Cell and Molecular Biology Program admissions committee. She is also the coordinator for the Anatomy and Neurobiology Seminar series.