Dr. Hannah Pierson completed her PhD in Biomolecular Chemistry in 2013. Her Ph.D. work was focused on energy metabolism in living organisms and 3-D protein structure determination. Hannah then undertook a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute. During her Fellowship she successfully defined new functional cellular processes involving copper metabolism, which is critical to fetal development, brain function, energy metabolism, fertility, and the general health of humans. She led studies aimed at growing miniature stem cell derived organoids (organ model systems) and developed three-dimensional image-based techniques for tracing dynamic metabolic and functional biological processes, in real time, on living tissues.
Hannah is also proud to be the mother of smart, funny, strong willed, and caring daughter. Her commitment to her own family drives her to help those seeking fertility treatments become parents and share in the joy of raising our next generation.
Dr. Hannah Pierson’s expertise in 3-D image-based technologies, human luminal organ development and function, epithelial cell biology, copper metabolism in fetal development, and her dedication to our mission of improving IVF success rates for families undergoing fertility treatment are great assets to our scientific team.