Emma Spooner, B.S.
Former Clinical Research Coordinator @Goldstein Lab - Mass General Hospital
Emma graduated from Endicott College with a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Biology. Her research experience began during her freshman year of college, studying the olfactory system as a predictor of brain health and Alzheimer’s disease. She then worked as a research trainee at McLean Hospital in the Developmental Biopsychiatry Research Program, studying the impact of extreme chronic stress and child maltreatment on brain morphology. Finally, she spent her senior year working as a research trainee at Brigham and Women’s Hospital studying Alzheimer’s disease and the immune system in transgenic mouse models. Within the lab at BWH, Emma completed her senior thesis project, characterizing an APP transgenic mouse model for sex differences in Alzheimer’s pathology and complement system expression. This last experience, studying the role of the immune system in Alzheimer’s disease, is making her a great fit for our Healthy Aging Translational CoHort (HATCH) study. This project aims to validate and enhance a clinical risk algorithm for early detection of Alzheimer’s Disease and memory circuitry deficits in individuals at high risk for cognitive decline later in life.
After her time in our Lab, Emma came back to Animal Model Research and joined Dr Lemere’s Lab at the Brigham, where she is currently a Research Technician