Lainey joined Tufts CTSI’s CTRC as a Clinical Research Coordinator in October 2025.  She graduated from Virgina Tech with a degree in Biochemistry in in May 2024. She moved to Boston in January 2025 to start a job as a Research Technician in the Infectious Disease Division at Tufts Medical Center, working in Dr. Edouard Vannier’s lab researching Babesiosis.