Maureen R. Hanson (BS, PhD) is Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She is also Director of the Center for Enervating Neuroimmune Disease, which encompasses an NIH Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) Center that involves faculty from multiple departments at Cornell and the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan, NY. The Center is also funded by several foundations and private donors to perform basic research into the pathophysiology of ME/CFS. Prof. Hanson is co-chair of the NIH NANDSC ME/CFS Research Roadmap Working Group of Council, which recently completed a Research Roadmap Report that was approved by the NIH NINDS Council. Dr. Hanson is on the scientific advisory boards of the Open Medicine Foundation, Simmaron Research Foundation, the Solve ME/CFS Initiative, and the WE&ME Foundation.
Dr. Hanson has a B.S. from Duke University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she also held an NIH postdoctoral fellowship. Before moving to Cornell, she was on the faculty in the Department of Biology at the University of Virginia. She has served as Associate Director of the Cornell Biotechnology Program and Director of the Cornell NSF Plant Science Center. She has a dual research program on cell and molecular biology of plants and on human disease. She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
Twitter: @DrMaureenHanson
Website: https://cals.cornell.edu/maureen-hanson
