Hannah Thomasy

Hannah Thomasy, PhD

Hannah joined Drug Discovery News as an assistant editor in 2022. She earned her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Washington in 2017 and completed the Dalla Lana Fellowship in Global Journalism in 2020. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Undark, and New Scientist. She enjoys playing soccer and hiking and hopes to be a contestant on The Great Canadian Baking Show one day. 

Articles by Hannah Thomasy, PhD

An illustration of a blue double helix surrounded by red spiky viruses.
| 10+ min read
A hand with a red string tied in a bow around the index finger.
| 10 min read
A pocket watch with a drawing of a brain in the middle.
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A black mouse walks along a white surface against a red background.
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A mouse mother stands next to her litter of small, furless mouse pups.
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Different colored lines ranging from red to blue indicate the trajectories of Fyn proteins within a neuron.
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A characteristically doughnut-shaped red blood cell is in focus in the foreground, other red blood cells are out of focus in the background.
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Two women in a forest wear blue gardening gloves while examining a small log.
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A hot spring showing concentric rings of different colors at Yellowstone National Park surrounded by forests.
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The surface of a retinal organoid showing many different cell types in different colors.
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Blue and green droplets of organoids against a black background.
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A man in a tan sweater works on a puzzle in the shape of a human head.
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A black and white drawing of a human brain connected to an electrical cord.
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An image of a peanut against a blue background.
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Square wooden tiles are used to spell the word “fatigue”, with a hand putting the last letter into place.
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