Hannah Ennerfelt, PhD

Hannah Ennerfelt is a postdoctoral fellow advised by Dr. Katrin Andreasson at Stanford University, where she researches the mechanisms by which immune cells drive Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive aging. Hannah received her bachelor’s degrees in biology and psychology from Salisbury University, and she began her studies in neuroimmunology as a Fulbright scholar at Uppsala University in Sweden. Hannah then completed her PhD in neuroscience in the lab of Dr. John Lukens at the University of Virginia, where she studied how the brain's resident immune cells, microglia, regulate neurodegenerative diseases. As a BrightFocus postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Ennerfelt aims to understand how the immune receptor TREM1 impacts peripheral immune cell function and contributes to the development of Alzheimer's disease.