Amy Schade

Amy Schade was born in Grapevine, Texas. She graduated in 2013 from the University of North Texas, where she majored in Biology with a focus in Microbiology, and minored in both Chemistry and History. Amy was actually recruited to UNT as a debater and was active throughout her undergraduate career as both a college-level competitor and as a coach at a high school in her hometown – she was designated a National Debate Scholar Summa Cum Laude in 2012. At Harvard, she works in Professor James A. DeCaprio’s lab, determining the role of Cyclin D-CDK4/6 in the regulation of the DREAM complex. Outside the lab, Amy makes time for a commitment to increasing diversity in science. She has served as a mentor for underrepresented minority undergrads in Harvard’s longstanding SHURP program and is engaged in Dana-Farber’s CURE program, which helps guide underrepresented minority undergrads and high schoolers in evaluating the primary scientific literature.