May 17, 2021
Last January, Hannah George ’19 started a career as a medical laboratory scientist at the U of M’s Infectious Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Fairview M Health. Little did George know that within a month of starting the job, she’d be playing a key role in Minnesota’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The skills she’d mastered through the U of M’s Medical Laboratory Sciences Program prepared her to do microbiology testing for a number of infectious diseases. In her new position, she read cultures and performed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, which amplify small sections of a person’s DNA to find anything from a virus to a genetic disorder.