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Students
Rachel Davis
BBS PhD Candidate
Rachel is a graduate student in Harvard's Biological & Biomedical Sciences program. She received her bachelor's degree from UMass Amherst in 2019. She then went on to work as a research technician in a cancer therapeutics lab at HMS before starting grad school.
Rachel is interested in how peripheral nerves within the lung interact with primary lung tumors, and how this communication influences tumor progression.
Outside the lab, she enjoys painting, reading, and hanging out with her dog Reggie.
Hannah Farnsworth
PiN PhD Candidate
Hannah is a graduate student trainee in the Program in Neuroscience. Before starting graduate school, she received a degree in Behavioral Neuroscience from Northeastern University and worked as a technician at HMS. As a technician, she studied how thyroid hormone regulates the activity and transcriptional profiles of cortical neurons.
Hannah is particularly interested in understanding how gliomas affect neuronal activity both within the tumor microenvironment and in longer-range circuits.
Outside of lab, Hannah enjoys spending her free time long-distance running, hiking, and basically anything outdoors!
Lexi Franklin
PiN PhD Candidate
Lexi is a Harvard PhD Student in the Program in Neuroscience. She received her BS degree from the University of California, San Diego and worked as a technician at the Salk Institute. After graduation, she continued to work as a technician at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in London.
Lexi is primarily interested in how different brain circuits are influenced by the presence of peripheral cancers in the body.
Outside of lab, she enjoys reading, beach days, and painting.
Hannah Hoffman
MD/PhD Student
Hannah is a trainee with the Harvard-MIT MD/PhD program and HST. She graduated from Dartmouth in 2019 and worked as a research associate at the Koch and Broad Institutes before starting medical school.
She is broadly interested in applying single-cell and spatial technologies to identify therapeutic vulnerabilities in tumor-peripheral nerve interactions.
In her free time, she enjoys playing Wordle, mentoring underserved STEM students, and taking very slow jogs around Boston.