Hannah Luna Hagemeyer studied medicine at the University of Hamburg, Bern, Cape Town, and La Laguna and started her residency at the Department of Neurology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) in 2025. After her doctoral thesis at the INIMS about the interferon-stimulated gene Apolipoprotein L6 in neuroinflammation, she is currently investigating viral infections in the context of autoimmunity to elucidate the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis. Her overarching goal is to broaden the understanding of the coevolution of pathogens and humans and its decisive effect on emerging autoimmune diseases. During her studies, she received scholarships from the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation, HamburGlobal Fellowship, Rolfing Foundation Hamburg and funding from the excellence initiative of the University of Hamburg for student research groups.
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