Lisa Stowers is an American neuroscientist studying pheromone signaling and response. She is a professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Scripps Research.^[1]

Lisa was born Lisa Tanguay in Petaluma, California.

Stowers completed her PhD at Harvard University in Molecular and Cellular Biology in 1997.^[1]

Stowers became an associate professor at Scripps Research in 2002. She initially had a joint appointment in the Cell Biology and Neuroscience departments and later became a part of the Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience departments. She gained tenure and was promoted to full professor in 2016.^[1]

Stowers' research focuses on how neurons sense and respond to pheromones, especially the molecular pathways in mouse neurons that lead to predictable behaviors.^[2] She has made several discoveries connecting pheromone sensing and emotional and behavioral response in mice, including scent compounds that lead to fear, aggression, mating, or pup suckling.^[3][4][5]

• 2004 Pew Biomedical Scholar^[6]