She received her M.D./Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; her graduate work with Sean Morrison identified mechanisms regulating the self-renewal and aging of stem cells in the central nervous system. During her psychiatry residency and postdoctoral fellowship in David Rowitch’s lab at UCSF, she discovered heterogeneous subsets of astrocytes required for postnatal neural circuit development. Dr. Molofsky’s independent lab investigates the roles of non-neuronal cells, including astrocytes and microglia, in neural circuit development and brain plasticity. She is also the recipient of awards from the Burroughs Welcome Fund, the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.