She holds a Doctorate degree in the Department of Biology from the Drexel University. Dr. Elefant's holds NIH Postdoctoral Fellow in Departments of Genetics and Medicine, University of Pennsylvania (1999-2002). She was honoured with Travel grant award, 4th International Conference of the Growth Hormone Research Society, Goteborg, Sweden in 2000 and Mary K Howett Award for undergraduate research, Drexel University in 2016. Dr. Elefant's research interests includes understanding the epigenetic neural gene control mechanisms that govern regulation of higher order brain function via chromatin packaging control in neurons. Impairment of epigenetic gene control mechanisms in the brain involving reduced levels of histone acetylation causes significant cognitive deficits that are a debilitating hallmark of most neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease.