Meet our staff
Emily Cronin-Furman
Research Assistant
Location
Kontos Medical Sciences Building, Room 229
1217 East Marshall Street
Richmond, Virginia 23298
“I had a grandfather who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. For most of the time I knew him, during my young life and adult life, until he passed in 2004, he had the disease. Seeing that and how it affected my family— my grandmother, my father, my aunts and uncles— really inspired me.”
Education
B.S., University of Miami
Ph.D. candidate, Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Virginia
Research
- Lewy body formation and maintenance in our cell model of Parkinson’s disease; to understand how and why Lewy bodies are formed in Parkinson’s disease, and hopefully determine if this process is a viable therapeutic target
- Cellular degradation process autophagy, which is believed to play an important role in in Lewy body formation
- Employs live confocal imaging, immunocytochemistry, electron microscopy, western blotting and PCR
Professional affiliation
- Society for Neuroscience, student member
Recent professional achievements
- Robery J. Huskey Symposium Oustanding Poster Award, University of Virginia, 2010
- Graduate Biosciences Society Travel Award, University of Virginia, 2008
