Bio:

Emily is a research associate with the Human Cell Types department at the Allen Institute, on the Gene Therapy team. She graduated from Claremont Mckenna College in 2021 with B.S. in Neuroscience. As an undergraduate, Emily was involved in multiple research projects studying the effects of pain on both behavioral and cognitive aspects of the CNS. Her favorite project was a study implicating macrophages in chronic pain persistence through their indirect sensitization of primary afferent cell bodies in the Dorsal Root Ganglion.