Hannah Meyer
Assistant Professor
Cancer Center Member
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, EMBL-EBI, 2018
[email protected] | 516-367-8468
A properly functioning immune system must be able to recognize diseased cells and foreign invaders among the multitude of healthy cells in the body. This ability is essential to both prevent autoimmune diseases and fight infections and cancer. We study how a specific type of immune cells, known as T cells, are educated to make this distinction during development.
The thymus generates and selects a highly variable yet specific T cell repertoire which discriminates between healthy and non-healthy self and dangerous non-self antigens. My research group uses a systems immunology approach to dissect the mechanisms crucial to the selection processes in the thymus. We develop experimental techniques and combine the resulting data with innovative computational models to generate accurate and testable hypotheses about tissue-level organ physiology.
Studying thymus physiology from a qualitative and quantitative perspective will provide us with a more fine-grained understanding of the selection processes and their down-stream consequences such as auto-immunity, cancer immunosurveillance and immune deficiency.
Hannah Meyer selected as Rita Allen Foundation Scholar
June 11, 2026
The CSHL immunologist will study how genetics, age, and sex influence the function of an often-overlooked organ called the thymus.
A fellowship of curiosity
May 26, 2026
The CSHL Fellows Program celebrates 40 years as alumni unite to share their remarkable research and reflect on decades of progress.
How your thymus puts the I in immunity
January 15, 2026
Your immune system works a lot like a CAPTCHA test. Now, CSHL鈥檚 Meyer lab is using machine learning to crack its code.
The 2025 CSHL Volleyball Final
October 7, 2025
As the annual CSHL volleyball league ends, only one team can reign supreme.
BATMAN brings TCR therapy out of the shadows
July 25, 2025
A new AI model developed by CSHL quantitative biologists could help improve immunotherapy treatments 鈥渘ot only for cancer, but all human illnesses.鈥
The 2024 CSHL Volleyball Final
December 24, 2024
Eight teams entered the season on equal footing. Now, only two remain. But there can be only one champion. Press play to watch it all unfold.
Navlakha named Simons Foundation Pivot fellow
December 5, 2024
The computational biologist teams with CSHL鈥檚 Hannah Meyer to explore how the immune system solves problems also common in AI.
At the Lab Season 1 Research Rewind: AI+
October 29, 2024
This season鈥檚 final Research Rewind brings us from the realm of quantitative biology to neuroscience, genomics, and beyond.
The curious immune cells caught between worlds
September 24, 2024
CSHL鈥檚 Hannah Meyer shows innate-like T cells mature differently in humans and mice. Her discovery could improve preclinical immunotherapy studies.
The CSHL School of Biological Sciences鈥 class of 2024
May 5, 2024
The School of Biological Sciences awarded Ph.D. degrees to 11 students this year. Here are some stories and reflections from their time at CSHL.
All Publications
23 Jul 2025 | Cell Systems | :101345
Banerjee, Amitava; Pattinson, David; Wincek, Cornelia; Bunk, Paul; Axhemi, Armend; Chapin, Sarah; Navlakha, Saket; Meyer, Hannah;
10 Sep 2024 | Cell Reports | 43(9):114705
Loh, Liyen; Carcy, Salomé; Krovi, Harsha; Domenico, Joanne; Spengler, Andrea; Lin, Yong; Torres, Joshua; Prabakar, Rishvanth; Palmer, William; Norman, Paul; Stone, Matthew; Brunetti, Tonya; Meyer, Hannah; Gapin, Laurent;
25 Jan 2024 | bioRxiv
Banerjee, Amitava; Pattinson, David; Wincek, Cornelia; Bunk, Paul; Chapin, Sarah; Navlakha, Saket; Meyer, Hannah;
8 Dec 2023 | bioRxiv
Loh, Liyen; Carcy, Salomé; Krovi, Harsha; Domenico, Joanne; Spengler, Andrea; Lin, Yong; Torres, Joshua; Palmer, William; Norman, Paul; Stone, Matthew; Brunetti, Tonya; Meyer, Hannah; Gapin, Laurent;
29 Nov 2023 | bioRxiv
Kovaleva, Vasilisa; Pattinson, David; Barton, Carl; Chapin, Sarah; Minervina, Anastasia; Richards, Katherine; Sant, Andrea; Thomas, Paul; Pogorelyy, Mikhail; Meyer, Hannah;
9 Aug 2023 | Cell Genomics | 3(8):100347
Kleeman, Sam; Thakir, Tuba; Demestichas, Breanna; Mourikis, Nicholas; Loiero, Dominik; Ferrer, Miriam; Bankier, Sean; Riazat-Kesh, Yosef; Lee, Hassal; Chantzichristos, Dimitrios; Regan, Claire; Preall, Jonathan; Sinha, Sarthak; Rosin, Nicole; Yipp, Bryan; de Almeida, Luiz; Biernaskie, Jeff; Dufour, Antoine; Tober-Lau, Pinkus; Ruusalepp, Arno; Bjorkegren, Johan; Ralser, Markus; Kurth, Florian; Demichev, Vadim; Heywood, Todd; Gao, Qing; Johannsson, Gudmundur; Koelzer, Viktor; Walker, Brian; Meyer, Hannah; Janowitz, Tobias;
15 Jan 2023 | Journal of Pathology
Mou, Haiwei; Eskiocak, Onur; Özler, Kadir; Gorman, Megan; Yue, Junjiayu; Jin, Ying; Wang, Zhikai; Gao, Ya; Janowitz, Tobias; Meyer, Hannah; Yu, Tianxiong; Wilkinson, John; Kucukural, Alper; Ozata, Deniz; Beyaz, Semir;
12 Dec 2022 | bioRxiv
Yamrom, Boris; Lee, Yoon-ha; Marks, Steven; Chorbadjiev, Lubomir; Meyer, Hannah; Iossifov, Ivan;
Oct 2022 | iScience | 25(10):105040
Kleeman, Sam; Cordioli, Mattia; Timmers, Paul; Khan, Atlas; Tober-Lau, Pinkus; Kurth, Florian; Demichev, Vadim; Meyer, Hannah; Wilson, James; Ralser, Markus; Kiryluk, Krzysztof; Ganna, Andrea; Baillie, Kenneth; Janowitz, Tobias;
2 Aug 2022 | Nature Communications | 13(1):4296
Carter, Jason; Strömich, Léonie; Peacey, Matthew; Chapin, Sarah; Velten, Lars; Steinmetz, Lars; Brors, Benedikt; Pinto, Sheena; Meyer, Hannah;