Jenelle Timmins-Persley, PhD
1996 LHS Graduate
Field Hockey-7 years, Basketball-7 years, Softball-7 years, Show Choir-4 years, National Honor Society
2000 Graduate East Stroudsburg
B.S. Biology, Summa Cum Laude, Earned athletic scholarship and played Field Hockey and Softball briefly, until career ending back surgery
2006 Graduate Wake Forest
Wake Forest – PhD Cell and Molecular Biology.
Dissertation focused on the metabolism of HDL aka ‘good cholesterol’
Community Involvement
Winston-Salem – Created youth field hockey league
New York City – West Side Little League – coach, Yonkers Partnership in Education – Mentor
Columbia University
Research on plaques associated with heart disease leading to heart attack – investigated particular intercellular communication pathways
Current Employment
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals – Held roles in Research and Development and most recently Organizational Effectiveness & Executive Coaching
Undergrad and Graduate Awards
- 2006 – 2008 – Nutrition Training Grant, Columbia University School of Medicine
- 2008 – Oral Abstract Travel Award Recipient, Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Atlanta, GA
- 2005 Chosen Committee Member, Biomedical Sciences Seven-year Review, Wake Forest Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- 2004 – Best Graduate Student Poster Award, Lipoprotein Metabolism Gordon Conference Meriden, NH
- 2004 -Finalist; Junior Investigator Award for Women, 5th Annual Conference on Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, San Francisco, CA
- 2001 – 2006 Cardiovascular Pathobiology NIH Training Award, Department of Pathology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
- 2001 Dean’s Graduate Fellowship, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
- 2000 Moore Biology Student of the Year, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania
Married to Christopher and mother of Pepper