Hannah Carter, who completed her doctoral research in the lab of ICM core faculty member Dr. Rachel Karchin, was recently selected as one of just four recipients of the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association’s 2015 Outstanding Recent Grad Award. This award  is intended to honor recent JHU graduates for exceptional achievement or service in their professional or volunteer life.

Hannah received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 2012. Later that same year, after a brief postdoctoral fellowship within ICM, she joined the faculty of UC San Diego School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor. In 2013, she received a prestigious NIH Early Independence Award for her project “Network Approaches to Identify Cancer Drivers from High-Dimensional Tumor Data”. Her research focuses on computationally modeling how DNA mutations in tumor genomes impact intracellular biological processes and cellular behaviors, and how these cellular level changes cause cancer.

Well wishes to Hannah from her friends and colleagues at ICM!