Post Doctoral Fellows
Jennifer McCormick, Ph.D., graduated from Ohio Northern University (B.S., 1991) and got her PhD in biology from the University of Michigan in 1997. She did postdoctoral training at the University of Michigan Medical School Department of Biological Chemistry and in 2004 was awarded a master of public policy degree from the University of Michigan's G.R. Ford School of Public Policy.
Between 2001 and 2002, she managed a state-wide commercialization initiative (funded by the Michigan Life Sciences Corridor Fund) for one of UM's Associate VP for Research. She was a lecturer in the Ford School of Public Policy, teaching courses in science policy. For the past year she worked with Jason Owen-Smith, Professor of Sociology University of Michigan, on a project examining the impact of the August 9, 2001 hESC policy on hESC research in the US and is co-author of a forthcoming book on national science policy with Homer Neal, Professor of Physics University of Michigan, and Toby Smith, Sr Federal Relations Officer Association of American Universities, entitled "Beyond Sputnik: U.S. Science Policy in the 21st Century" (University of Michigan Press). The book is intended to reach a broad audience - scientists, policymakers, students in an introductory science policy course, and even the general public.
Jennifer is an active member of Women In Neuroscience, the American Association of University Women, and Society for Neuroscience. One of her proudest accomplishments is bringing to Ann Arbor the Brains Rule Neuroscience Expo. She co-organized this science education outreach program from 2001 to 2004 and participated in establishing it as an annual event.
Holly Tabor, Ph.D., majored Epidemiology with a minor in Genetics at Stanford in 2002. Her research focused on candidate gene approaches to the study of complex diseases and traits, including heart disease, resistance to HIV infection, and autism.
From 2002-2005 Holly was a Senior Scientist at the Stanford Human Genome Center, working with Rick Myers. There she directed the Genetics Group in candidate gene approaches to the study of heart disease, hypertension, insulin resistance and Parkinson's Disease. Holly has also worked on large scale epidemiological studies at UCSF and at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Holly is interested in ethical issues involved in the study of complex diseases. She is particularly interested in ethical issues surrounding autism.
Emily Murphy, Ph.D., joins the Program in Neuroethics as a postdoctoral fellow. Emily graduated from Harvard University (ABmcl, 2003, Psychology/MBB) and completed her doctoral work in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge while on a Gates Cambridge Scholarship (2003-2007). Her research in behavioral neuroscience has focused on the neural and neurochemical basis of impulsivity and behavioral flexibility. Emily received her first exposure to neuroethics in a final year course at Harvard that was jointly given between the psychology department and the law school. Her career interest in neuroethics is particularly in the use of neuroimaging in behavior assessment and prediction, and she will apply her postdoctoral work to policy issues in law, education, and research conduct.
Teneille Brown, J.D., is an attorney who received her undergraduate degree in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania (mcl BA, 2000) with a concentration in bioethics. While at Penn, she wrote an honors thesis on the ethics of elective cosmetic surgery and conducted HIV clinical research. She conducted research at the Penn Bioethics Center, and drafted a bill on genetic testing informed consent.
Teneille attended the University of Michigan law school (JD 2004), focusing on bioethics and medicine and the law. She assisted in the creation of the Pediatric Advocacy Initiative, a legal clinic that offered free services to area patients.
Teneille practiced law for two years at the law firm of Latham & Watkins, LLP in Washington, DC, where she practiced in the Health Care and Life Sciences group, representing early-stage pharmaceutical and device companies.
At CIRGE, Teneille will research the role of behavioral genetics in 4th, 8th, and 14th Amendment jurisprudence, against the back-drop of distributive justice and civil rights objectives. She is particularly interested in the disparity in legal treatment of mental illness, depending perhaps on the underlying genetic basis of the disorder. While she will be researching the genetics of alcohol use and how this information is used in the courts, she is also interested in the admissibility of genetics data generally.
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