Amber Hackett

Amber Hackett received a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011. During this time, she worked in the lab of Dr. Jeffrey Dupree studying the role of sphingolipids in central nervous system myelin development and maintenance. Amber received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Miami in 2016. For her thesis project, she studied glial scar formation and remyelination after spinal cord injury at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis in the lab of Dr. Jae Lee. She is now a Postdoctoral fellow in the Milbrandt lab studying how Schwann cells support axons. To do this, she is perturbing several major metabolic pathways in Schwann cells in vitro and in vivo to determine the impact on axons.