Masha Lazou

Masha Lazou completed her Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. As part of her undergraduate research, she worked on development of classifiers for the early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease using imaging data. Additionally, she focused on computational development of molecules that could potentially block the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein from binding to host cells. Continuing her academic pursuits at Boston University, she joined the laboratories of Dr. Sandor Vajda and Dr. Diane Joseph-McCarthy. Here, she has been developing computational methods to enhance the understanding of protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions. Her work concentrates on protein structural ensembles and their implications in drug discovery and development.