Emma Scotter

Emma Louise Scotter is a New Zealand academic neuropharmacologist and Associate Professor at the University of Auckland. In 2024 she was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Motor Neuron Disease research.

Academic career

Scotter completed a PhD in pharmacology at the University of Auckland, working on Huntington's disease. She undertook postdoctoral work at the University of Waikato, and then received an international fellowship to work on motor neuron disease genetics with Professor Chris Shaw at King's College London. Scotter then returned to Auckland as a postdoctoral research fellow, and in 2015 was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, for research on the blood-brain-barrier in motor neuron disease (MND). She joined the faculty of the university, rising to Associate Professor. Her research group is trialling treatments, some of which appear to slow or stop the disease progression for some patients.

Honours and awards In the 2024 King's Birthday Honours, Scotter was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Motor Neuron Disease research.

Selected works