Graduate Student Assistant, 2024 ARVO Science Communication Fellow,
Medical Writer for the Glaucoma Research Foundation
Emily is a freelance Medical Writer and third-year PhD student of the Vision Sciences Graduate Group at UC Berkeley, where she works across the Flanagan Lab and Gronert Lab to explore her research interests in neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration, neuroplasticity, and vision. Emily's PhD advisor is John G. Flanagan, PhD, DSc, FCOptom, FAAO, FARVO.
Emily's research experience includes a combination of cellular/molecular techniques and clinical methods, and her professional background is in diverse types of medical communications. She applies her passion for medical communications towards translating her work at the bench into improved patient experiences in the clinic.
(2020 to 2022) As a Medical Writer in New York City, Emily worked intimately with pharmaceutical and life sciences clients such as Agilent, Eli Lilly, and Diachii Sankyo.
(2019 to 2020) Emily received her Biomedical Sciences MSc by Research from the University of London through a project related to neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration.
(2016 to 2019) She attended Tulane University and earned her Bachelor of Science with Cell and Molecular Biology and Neuroscience majors and a Chemistry minor.
Emily is also passionate about psychedelic science. She belongs to Psychedelic Science at Berkeley, partakes in the Psychedelic Journal Club for graduate students and faculty, and has taken coursework such as Drugs and the Brain (UC Berkeley), Psychedelics and the Mind (the BCSP), and the Summer School on Psychedelic Research (University of Groningen). She plans to merge her research interests in vision, neurodegeneration, and psychedelics when she starts her own lab.
Emily enjoys writing, reading, running, hiking, drawing, cooking, live music, and stand-up comedy. Her poetry has been featured in online magazines and print collections, and she aims to publish her first novel by the end of her PhD. Emily also enjoys spoken poetry.