Katherine Stalnaker

Kate graduated from American University in 2016 with a BA in Psychology. In 2020 she graduated from Rutgers University with her MS in Biomedical Science with a concentration in Neuroscience. Her thesis was on glucose sensing in the brain and the relationship to feeding behavior. Kate has worked in the East Orange, NJ Veterans Affairs neurobehavioral lab studying the link between Parkinson’s Disease and Traumatic Brain Injuries. She then moved to the Wellman Center at Massachusetts General Hospital studying physiological differences in plantar skin and the differences to wound healing. At the Broad, Kate will be working behavioral models of schizophrenia.