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research 0:45 New faculty member links nature, nurture, and early brain development

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Clayton Metz

16 Dec 2019 62

Brittany Howell, assistant professor at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, studies how maternal characteristics and behavior impact brain development in infants. Howell will start recruiting new mothers to participate in her lab’s research studies in 2020.