Pam Osenkowski earned her B.S. in Biology in 2000 at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and her Ph.D. in Cancer Biology at Wayne State University in 2005. Her thesis work focused on the regulation of membrane type 1-matrix metalloproteinase on the cell surface. Following a short postdoc at the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, Dr. Osenkowski moved to Boston and conducted postdoctoral studies in Alzheimer's disease at Harvard Medical School.   She began teaching at Simmon's College and at Harvard Extension School and later obtained a faculty position at Michigan State University-College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Biology Department at Loyola University Chicago, where her teaching efforts are focused on the areas of genetics and cellular biology. She also serves as a Subject Matter Expert in genetics for Pearson.