Mariko Bennett, MD, PhD
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and School of Medicine
Dr. Mariko Bennett is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatricsat Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania.She is an Attending Neurologist in the Leukodystrophy Center ofExcellence at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. As a physician-scientist,she is dedicated to improving therapies for children with acquired andgenetic neuroimmunological conditions. Her research lab focuses onunderstanding the function of glia in health and disease. Prior to arrivingat CHOP, she completed her undergraduate degree at NortheasternUniversity, then her MD/PhD studies at Stanford in the lab of Ben Barres,where she defined the transcriptional identity of microglia and thecontribution of brain environment and cell ontogeny on this identity.During her child neurology residency at CHOP, Mariko worked in theSong-Ming lab at Penn, where she studied how endogenous anti-viralproperties of microglia limit therapeutic targeting and methods toovercome this by using microglia as cell therapies