Hania Timek

About

Third-year undergraduate Microbiology student in the University of Michigan's Honors Program minoring in Statistics and Spanish. Passionate about researching bacterial-based therapeutics for intestinal cancer development and educating the next generation in STEM.

Experience

• Amgen Fellow at Caltech
  Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

  Chosen among thousands of applicants as a recipient of the Amgen Scholarship to conduct research at the California Institute of Technology under Dr. Smruthi Karthikeyan.

• Incoming Student Research Fellow at EMBL
  Jun 2026 - Present · 1 mo

• Undergraduate Student Researcher at University of Michigan Biomedical Engineering
  Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

  I have been working in the Advanced Biotherapeutics Laboratory under PI Dr. Jiahe Li as an assistant in various projects pertaining to developing live cell-based therapeutics. Specifically, I am working on in situ silencing of colibactin using an engineered bacteria delivered in the gut. This technology will reduce the colonization of pks+ E. coli and the onset and development of tumorigenesis.

• Instructional Assistant for STATS250 at University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
  Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

  I assist students in lectures, grade their work, and coordinate with professors in the course STATS 250 at the University of Michigan.

• Michigan Synthetic Biology Team (2 yrs 6 mos)
  • Director of Internal Afffairs
    Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Member
    Jan 2024 - Jul 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos