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Summary

Loren DeVito, PhD, is a science and medical writer with expertise across a wide range of therapeutic areas, including oncology, neurology, cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, and gastrointestinal disease. She has experience developing digital (web sites, sales aids, email, mobile apps, AR, CRM), print (journal ads, brochures, newsletters, direct mail, press releases), and other media (webinars, podcasts, blogs) assets for both professional and consumer audiences. She also has experience in scientific strategy (competitive landscape analyses, new business research, CSR analyses, collaboration with medical affairs, scientific platforms, promotional medical education, preparation of materials for FDA/OPDP submissions). Loren has worked in both pharmaceutical marketing and in the non-profit sector as a medical and scientific communications specialist.

Subject Matter Expertise

• Neuropsychology
• Biology
• Academic Writing
• Medical Sciences
• Science Education
• Consulting
• Medical Writing
• Scientific Writing
• Regulatory Writing

Services

• Writing
• Scientific consulting
• Editing
• Literature search

Work Experience

• Freelance Writer

  Sticky Ink, Inc.

  March 2017 - Present

• Associate Director, Research Communications

  The Michael J. Fox Foundation

  June 2016 - January 2017

• Medical Writer

  Havas Health

  October 2015 - June 2016

• Scientific Strategist

  Intouch Solutions

  May 2014 - August 2015

• Senior Scientific Planner

  TBWA World Healthcare

  August 2013 - May 2014

• Medical Writer

  BGB NY

  December 2012 - July 2013

• Medical Copywriter

  IO-Media

  March 2012 - November 2012

• Post-doctoral Research Fellow

  Hospital for Sick Children

  October 2010 - February 2012

Education

• MA, PhD (Neuroscience)

  Boston University

  September 2005 - May 2010

• BA, Magna cum Laude (Psychology)

  Cornell University

  August 2001 - May 2005

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE
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• {"ProfilePublicationId":18055,"Type":"journal-article","Citation":"Wincott CM, Kim S, Titcombe RF, Tukey DS, Girma HK, Pick JE, Devito LM, Hofmann F, Hoeffer C, Ziff EB, Neurobiology of learning and memory, 2013, vol. 99, pp. 32-37, 2013","JournalTitle":"","Title":"Spatial memory deficits and motor coordination facilitation in cGMP-dependent protein kinase type II-deficient mice.","CitationType":"formatted-unspecified","DOI":"10.1016/j.nlm.2012.10.003","Date":"2013-01-00","Url":"http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/23103773","PublicationContributors":null,"ContributorNames":"Wincott CM, Kim S, Titcombe RF, Tukey DS, Girma HK, Pick JE, Devito LM, Hofmann F, Hoeffer C, Ziff EB","TotalNumberOfPublications":0}
• {"ProfilePublicationId":18056,"Type":"journal-article","Citation":"Wang J, Gallagher D, DeVito LM, Cancino GI, Tsui D, He L, Keller GM, Frankland PW, Kaplan DR, Miller FD, Cell stem cell, 2012, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 23-35, 2012","JournalTitle":"","Title":"Metformin activates an atypical PKC-CBP pathway to promote neurogenesis and enhance spatial memory formation.","CitationType":"formatted-unspecified","DOI":"10.1016/j.stem.2012.03.016","Date":"2012-07-00","Url":"http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/22770240","PublicationContributors":null,"ContributorNames":"Wang J, Gallagher D, DeVito LM, Cancino GI, Tsui D, He L, Keller GM, Frankland PW, Kaplan DR, Miller FD","TotalNumberOfPublications":0}
• {"ProfilePublicationId":18057,"Type":"journal-article","Citation":"Stone SS, Teixeira CM, Devito LM, Zaslavsky K, Josselyn SA, Lozano AM, Frankland PW, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2011, vol. 31, no. 38, pp. 13469-13484, 2011","JournalTitle":"","Title":"Stimulation of entorhinal cortex promotes adult neurogenesis and facilitates spatial memory.","CitationType":"formatted-unspecified","DOI":"10.1523/jneurosci.3100-11.2011","Date":"2011-09-00","Url":"http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21940440","PublicationContributors":null,"ContributorNames":"Stone SS, Teixeira CM, Devito LM, Zaslavsky K, Josselyn SA, Lozano AM, Frankland PW","TotalNumberOfPublications":0}
• {"ProfilePublicationId":18058,"Type":"journal-article","Citation":"Drake NM, DeVito LM, Cleland TA, Soloway PD, Genes, brain, and behavior, 2011, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 392-403, 2011","JournalTitle":"","Title":"Imprinted Rasgrf1 expression in neonatal mice affects olfactory learning and memory.","CitationType":"formatted-unspecified","DOI":"10.1111/j.1601-183x.2011.00678.x","Date":"2011-06-00","Url":"http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21251221","PublicationContributors":null,"ContributorNames":"Drake NM, DeVito LM, Cleland TA, Soloway PD","TotalNumberOfPublications":0}
• {"ProfilePublicationId":18059,"Type":"journal-article","Citation":"Devito LM, Eichenbaum H, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2011, vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 3169-3175, 2011","JournalTitle":"","Title":"Memory for the order of events in specific sequences: contributions of the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex.","CitationType":"formatted-unspecified","DOI":"10.1523/jneurosci.4202-10.2011","Date":"2011-03-00","Url":"http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21368028","PublicationContributors":null,"ContributorNames":"Devito LM, Eichenbaum H","TotalNumberOfPublications":0}
• {"ProfilePublicationId":18060,"Type":"journal-article","Citation":"DeVito LM, Balu DT, Kanter BR, Lykken C, Basu AC, Coyle JT, Eichenbaum H, Genes, brain, and behavior, 2011, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 210-222, 2011","JournalTitle":"","Title":"Serine racemase deletion disrupts memory for order and alters cortical dendritic morphology.","CitationType":"formatted-unspecified","DOI":"10.1111/j.1601-183x.2010.00656.x","Date":"2011-03-00","Url":"http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/21029376","PublicationContributors":null,"ContributorNames":"DeVito LM, Balu DT, Kanter BR, Lykken C, Basu AC, Coyle JT, Eichenbaum H","TotalNumberOfPublications":0}
• {"ProfilePublicationId":18061,"Type":"journal-article","Citation":"DeVito LM, Eichenbaum H, Behavioural brain research, 2010, vol. 215, no. 2, pp. 318-325, 2010","JournalTitle":"","Title":"Distinct contributions of the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex to the \u0026quot;what-where-when\u0026quot; components of episodic-like memory in mice.","CitationType":"formatted-unspecified","DOI":"10.1016/j.bbr.2009.09.014","Date":"2010-12-00","Url":"http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/19766146","PublicationContributors":null,"ContributorNames":"DeVito LM, Eichenbaum H","TotalNumberOfPublications":0}
• {"ProfilePublicationId":18062,"Type":"journal-article","Citation":"DeVito LM, Lykken C, Kanter BR, Eichenbaum H, Learning \u0026amp; memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), 2010, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 161-167, 2010","JournalTitle":"","Title":"Prefrontal cortex: role in acquisition of overlapping associations and transitive inference.","CitationType":"formatted-unspecified","DOI":"10.1101/lm.1685710","Date":"2010-03-00","Url":"http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/20189961","PublicationContributors":null,"ContributorNames":"DeVito LM, Lykken C, Kanter BR, Eichenbaum H","TotalNumberOfPublications":0}
• {"ProfilePublicationId":18063,"Type":"journal-article","Citation":"Devito LM, Kanter BR, Eichenbaum H, Hippocampus, 2010, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 208-217, 2010","JournalTitle":"","Title":"The hippocampus contributes to memory expression during transitive inference in mice.","CitationType":"formatted-unspecified","DOI":"10.1002/hipo.20610","Date":"2010-01-00","Url":"http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/19405137","PublicationContributors":null,"ContributorNames":"Devito LM, Kanter BR, Eichenbaum H","TotalNumberOfPublications":0}
• {"ProfilePublicationId":18064,"Type":"journal-article","Citation":"DeVito LM, Konigsberg R, Lykken C, Sauvage M, Young WS, Eichenbaum H, The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2009, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 2676-2683, 2009","JournalTitle":"","Title":"Vasopressin 1b receptor knock-out impairs memory for temporal order.","CitationType":"formatted-unspecified","DOI":"10.1523/jneurosci.5488-08.2009","Date":"2009-03-00","Url":"http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/19261862","PublicationContributors":null,"ContributorNames":"DeVito LM, Konigsberg R, Lykken C, Sauvage M, Young WS, Eichenbaum H","TotalNumberOfPublications":0}
• {"ProfilePublicationId":18065,"Type":"journal-article","Citation":"Armstrong CM, DeVito LM, Cleland TA, Chemical senses, 2006, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 343-349, 2006","JournalTitle":"","Title":"One-trial associative odor learning in neonatal mice.","CitationType":"formatted-unspecified","DOI":"10.1093/chemse/bjj038","Date":"2006-05-00","Url":"http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/16495436","PublicationContributors":null,"ContributorNames":"Armstrong CM, DeVito LM, Cleland TA","TotalNumberOfPublications":0}