[citation needed] Glimcher has been at the center of controversies related to animal rights activists,[2] excessive corporate payments,[3] and research misconduct.
[4] A 2021 investigation by the Boston Globe Spotlight team highlighted Glimcher’s activities on multiple corporate boards, including Bristol Myers Squibb, GlaxoSmithKline, and Analog Devices.
[5] After this investigation, Glimcher continued to receive compensation on for-profit boards, while doubling her salary to $4 million per year at Dana-Farber.
[22][23] Glimcher's role helped discover Schnurri-3 (Shn3 for short) is a large zinc finger protein distantly related to Drosophila.
[26] There she took interest dysregulation in autoimmune diseases and, in her fourth year at Harvard, discovered the protein known as Nk1.1 (see natural killer T cell), which soon became widely recognized across the field of immunology.
During this time, Glimcher worked with mentor Bill Paul, who strongly encouraged her to continue her research independently after completing medical school.
[26] Her past work has involved regulation of immune function and has shifted towards osteobiology with a focus on the bone disease osteoporosis.
[18] She is married to Gregory Petsko, Professor of Neurology in the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, who was director of the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center and chair of biochemistry at Brandeis University prior to moving to Weill Cornell Medicine, where he became director of the Helen and Robert Appel Alzheimer's Disease Research Institute.
[39] Her eldest son, Dr. Hugh Glimcher Auchincloss, is also a physician, currently a cardiothoracic surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital.
[citation needed] While she was at Harvard, she hired lab technicians with her own research fund to support her postdoctoral fellows after they had babies so that they were allowed to leave by 6.
[citation needed] This carried on into Glimcher's involvement with the National Institutes of Health to create a similar postdoc grant program caring for family members.
[citation needed] She joined this task force after a controversy was sparked when former Harvard president Larry Summers suggested that women might be able to innately do less in science.
She established paid maternity leave, created daycare centers and another postdoc grant program for primary caregivers.