Dr. Claudia Z. Han is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Chris Glass at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Her current work focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms determining human microglia identity during development and in cancer, with the latter supported by the Cancer Research Institute Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship. Prior to her postdoctoral studies, she graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in Biological Sciences. She then pursued her PhD with Dr. Kodi Ravichandran at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, focusing on crosstalk between professional and non-professional phagocytes in the clearance of apoptotic cells. Her K99/R00 BRAIN project utilizes cerebral organoids and iPSC technology in conjunction with mouse genetics to determine how the brain environment modulates the microglia-specific enhancer landscape to influence microglia phenotypes during development.