Dr. Elizabeth Nance is the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington, with an appointment in Radiology and affiliation with the UW Center on Human Development and Disability. Elizabeth received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and completed a postdoc in Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, with a research emphasis in neuroscience, at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her research at UW develops methods to understand the developing brain’s response to injury or disease, and engineers nanotherapeutic platforms to treat brain disease.