Kristen Elwell is the Associate Director of Research Policy and Compliance. She oversees the research compliance team at HSCRB, focusing on areas of non-financial compliance such as research subject to Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight (ESCRO). She began her career in government relations at Harvard University and was previously an Assistant General Counsel at Northeastern University. Kristen has a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School and she completed her undergraduate degree at American University in Washington, DC. She was a Fellow with the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics in 2017-2018. Kristen loves dogs and has a rescue dog named Meryl that she loves very much.