Gordon College Viewbook 2012-2013

Lisa Spencer Class of 1995 As a teaching doctor of immunological diseases at Harvard Medical School, Lisa (Richard) Spencer ’95 says her lab is her mission field.

She loves that as a scientist she can ask any question and explore her hypothesis from any angle—a practice she learned as a biology student at Gordon.

“My faith and my work as a scientist are completely integrated. It’s a pursuit of truth, and it helps me understand God’s world in new ways,” says Spencer.

While at Gordon, it was her dream to use her biology degree to cure people of diseases in third world countries. “In my lab work today that’s still my goal—to modulate diseases and put them into a drug design to bring healing to people,” says Spencer. “Using science to find treatments for illnesses is the best way I know to work towards God’s redemptive purposes.”