Student Profiles

Jessica graduated from Yale University in May 2020 with a BS in Neuroscience with Distinction. During her undergraduate years, she worked in the Strittmatter Lab to study Fyn inhibition in a mouse model of Tauopathy. As a medical student at UC Davis, she was involved in the development of small Transcriptional Gene Silencing RNAs for the treatment of Fragile X Syndrome and Fragile-X-associated Tremor and Ataxia Syndrome under the co-mentorship of Dr. Paul Hagerman and Dr. Randi Hagerman. She took a year off after finishing her second year of medical school to become an Medical Research Scholars Program Fellow at the NIH under the co-mentorship of Dr. Daniel Reich and Dr. Irene Cortese where she studied the CNS uptake of an Anti-CD8 T cell PET tracer in patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy. In the NIH OxCam program, she will be co-mentored by Dr. Irene Cortese (NINDS) and Dr. Colin Crump (Cambridge).