Articles by: Matthew Wiencke

Student Spotlight: Anna Hatch (PhD Candidate)

Student Spotlight: Anna Hatch (PhD Candidate)

When Geisel graduate student Anna Hatch enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, science was pretty far off her radar. While working in a lab, she “fell in love” with getting results and figuring out what they mean.

Geisel MD-PhD student Cindy Hahn is researching new therapeutic strategies for blood diseases such as sickle cell.

Being Creative with Sickle Cell Disease

When Cindy Hahn was a young girl, her father, a virologist, used to let her sit at his microscope and look at immune cells fighting a pig virus. Watching that pig virus sparked a passion for science she is now pursuing as an MD-PhD student.

Geisel Food Challenge Builds Compassion

Geisel Food Challenge Builds Compassion

How do you define compassion, how do you best teach it, and how do you practice it as a doctor-in-training? Khushboo Jhala (’16) has been exploring these questions through a project funded by the Schwartz Center for Compassionate Healthcare.