Finding Cures to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

Reem Al Shabeeb, BS ’17, followed her passion for biology and medicine from Baghdad to GW. She worked in Assistant Professor Peter Nemes’s lab using single-cell mass spectrometry to study proteins in neurons, a process that could help scientists develop ways to treat people suffering from diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Al Shabeeb received the Boeing Power & Promise scholarship during her sophomore year, presented her biology honors thesis as a junior and subsequently received the GW Undergraduate Research Award.