Emily Palmer

Emily Palmer received her B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University in 2010. During her undergraduate career Emily worked with Dr. Simon Kasif in developing a computational model that predicts and quantifies a person’s response to various chemotherapeutic agents in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.

Emily entered the post-bachelor’s Ph.D. program in Biomedical Engineering in the fall of 2010. As a fellow in the NIH-funded Quantitative Biology and Physiology Training Program, Emily completed a research rotation in the Nanomedicine and Medical Acoustics Laboratory working on methods to reduce the surface charge of cationic gene carriers. In the spring of 2011, Emily officially joined the laboratory and is focusing on developing targeted nanoemulsions that will restore chemosensitivity to ovarian cancer cells through delivery of siRNA.