Hannah grew up in Salisbury, Maryland and graduated in 2017 from Salisbury University with a B.S. in Biology and a B.A. in Psychology. Her undergraduate research was focused on establishing a hyperglycemic model in zebrafish to study diabetic periphery neuropathy. After college, she did one year of research at Uppsala University under a Fulbright grant to study the role of IL-33 in glioma growth and environment. During her time in the Lukens lab, Hannah researched the microglial responses in Alzheimer’s Disease. In particular, Hannah investigated how the signaling molecules SYK, CARD9, and CLEC7A impact the microglial response to amyloid beta and other neurotoxic stimuli. Outside of lab, she enjoys spending time in the mountains, eating new foods, and trying to cultivate a green thumb. Hannah is now a postdoctoral researcher in Katrin Andreasson’s lab at Stanford University.