Medical Student
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
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Hannah Karp is a third-year medical student at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, and she is conducting wet-lab research in the Carilion Basic Science Research Lab under the mentorship of Elizabeth Nowak, MD and Jayasimha Rao, PhD. Hannah graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine with a BA in Chemistry-Biochemistry in 2020. Subsequently, she worked for two years in a medical oncology lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. During this time, Hannah developed a passion for scientific investigation anchored in patient need through first-hand contributions to bench-to-bedside projects.