Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program at UC Davis

Arielle Hancko earned her BS in Bioengineering from the University of California San Diego in 2022. Arielle's interests center around engineering therapeutics that function on the cellular level for chronic diseases and disorders. Her undergraduate research focused on biomaterial-aided cardiac tissue engineering. She now studies neuropharmacology in the Jennifer Whistler lab where she investigates mechanisms of interaction between drugs of abuse and cell receptors that relate to drug seeking tendencies and drug tolerance.