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Ball State student awarded Fulbright scholarship for medical research in Australia
It started with a high schooler caring for a child impacted by a disease. The high schooler, now a Ball State graduate, will be traveling abroad to help with research into the same disease. Hannah Fluhler, a Ball State nursing graduate, was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to work for 10 months at a medical research institute in Melbourne, Australia. Fluhler, will be working in the Genome Stability Unit at St. Vincent’s Institute for Medical Research with a 12-member team under Andrew Deans, the head of the unit. She will be working on Fanconi anemia (FA) research. FA is a condition that may cause bone marrow failure and cancer, a disease which impacted Aria Gatzlaff, a child who Fluhler provided respite care for, when she worked in child watch at the YMCA in Yorktown, Indiana, as a high schooler. “I met [Aria] and instantly fell in love with her,” Fluhler said.
- RACHEL ALANIZ, Aria’s mom
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Aria, born Jan. 12, 2011, was blind, deaf, was missing both her thumbs and had other physical anomalies, or as her father, Kevin Gatzlaff, associate professor of insurance, puts it, “all the textbook Fanconi anemia symptoms.”
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Hannah Fluhler, a nursing graduate from 2019, used to provide respite care for Aria as a teenager. In September, Fluhler will be traveling to Melbourne, Australia, to research Fanconi anemia, the disease which impacted Aria. HANNAH FLUHLER, PHOTO PROVIDED
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