In 2005, Dr. Amy Hartman ’98 was a member of the outbreak response team sent to Angola during the largest recorded outbreak of Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever, due to her work on viral virulence factors contributing to severe disease induced by infection with the Ebola virus.
Dr. Hartman received her bachelor’s degree in Biology from Washington and Jefferson College in 1998. She received her Ph.D. in Molecular Virology from the Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 2003. Her graduate thesis was done in the laboratory of Mickey Murphey-Corb, Ph.D. and focused on host factors controlling Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) infection in rhesus macaques.