Lauren Bell
Lauren Bell, joined Ariadne Labs in 2023 as a Senior Grant Manager on the Finance team. She works closely with the Delivery Decisions Initiative and Rural Home Hospital teams on proposal development, budget development, managing complex contract negotiations, invoice collection and account reconciliation in collaboration with Central Research Administration Offices at BWH and Harvard’s Office of Sponsored Programs. She also manages the post-award monitoring, budgeting forecasting, and reporting activities, ensuring compliance with hospital, university and sponsor policies for her portfolio.
Lauren previously spent 6 years in research and grants and contracts management working at Texas A&M AgriLife and Texas A&M Sponsored Research Services. At Texas A&M AgriLife she performed regulatory review of all proposals submitted on behalf of AgriLife agencies ensuring adherence to sponsor guidelines, agency and TAMU system policy, and state and federal laws. During her tenure with Texas A&M Sponsored Research Services she worked with the International Ocean Discovery Program preparing and overseeing $50M annual Ship Operations budget and creating detailed cost projections.
Lauren is currently pursuing a Master of Research Administration Degree from the University of Central Florida. She received her BA from Texas A&M University and is a Certified Research Administrator through the Research Administration Certification Council.