Title: Team Leader, Life Sciences
Category: Professional 1
Education: M.A., Pathobiology; B.S., Molecular Biology
Ms. Spaisman earned her B.S. in molecular biology from Lehigh University, graduating with the university's highest honors, honors in the department of biological sciences, as a member of Phi Beta Kappa and as a Roy C. Eckardt College Scholar. She continued her education and received an M.A. in Pathobiology from Brown University. As a undergraduate and graduate student, her research experience included studies on Saccharomyces cervesiae that explored mechanisms of sister chromatid cohesion in cell division and investigations on a human neuroectodermal cell line to develop a better understanding of the mechanisms of ethanol metabolism in the brain. Her research as a graduate student at Brown was funded by an NIH training grant. In college, Ms. Spaisman was also very active in her class, holding leadership positions in both her class council "Team ’05" and her dormitory’s council, where she helped organize school activities and fundraisers.