Jenah Gabby

Jenah is currently an undergraduate student at Tufts University studying Biopsychology. During high school she was accepted into the Clear Direction mentoring program at NYU Langone where she was first introduced to neuroscience research from her mentor Dr. Jessica Minder. Since then, she has been a research assistant in several cognition labs studying an array of neuroscience topics including method acting, memory and metacognition as well as music cognition. 

  Following her time as a research assistant, Jenah then began biomedical science research in the Kidney Lab at the University of Washington working with graduate student Louisa Helms. In the Kidney Lab she worked on the potential use of gene therapy to treat a genetic disorder that causes renal kidney failure called cystinosis. During this time, she focused on analyzing the development of kidney organoids derived from pluripotent stem cells in order to determine the best viral vector- AAV or lentivirus to deliver gene therapy for cystinosis. 

  During her junior year, she began working as a research assistant in the Maguire lab with graduate students Najah Walton and Garret Scarpa using immunohistochemistry and rodent behavior analysis to study the role of  neurosteroids/ neurosteriodgenesis and an inhibitory neuron subtype expressing a protein called parvalbumin.