Gabe Hanson
BME Postdoctoral Researcher
UVA BME Ph.D. student (Fall 2020- Summer 2025)
Systems and Biomolecular Data Science Trainee (2023-2024)
Gabe is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME). He received his Ph.D. in BME in Summer 2025. His thesis work in the Dolatshahi Lab was titled “Integrative Spatial and Transcriptomic Profiling of Tumor-Immune Interactions in Lung Cancer“.
Gabe is from Duluth, Minnesota, and graduated from Saint John’s University (MN) in 2016 with a degree in Applied Physics.
Prior to joining UVA, Gabe spent a year living in monasteries in South Asia, serving as a volunteer in the Benedictine Volunteer Corps, and upon his return, worked as a project engineer at Open Systems International, where he designed and implemented multi-server supervisory control and data acquisition systems for power utility companies.
Gabe’s research is centered on understanding the coordination and communication of the immune system. His main project focuses on how immune interactions are rewired in lung cancer and how to better leverage the immune system to improve cancer treatment. He is also applying this framework to understand immune regulation and cross-talk at the maternal-neonatal interface.
Outside of the lab, you can find Gabe backpacking and hiking through the mountains near Charlottesville, playing the guitar, or tending to one of the many plants in his garden.