Student
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Hana Ruran is pursuing a BA in Chemistry and an MD with a 4.0 GPA through Case Western Reserve University’s 8-year BA/MD program. She is striving to apply her learned medicinal chemistry knowledge to develop novel therapeutics for type-2 allergic conditions, diseases that disproportionately affect underserved communities, within the field of otorhinolaryngology.
She holds three Clinical Research Intern positions at Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, the Cleveland Clinic’s Head and Neck Institute, and Boston Children’s Hospital’s Division of Immunology.
Ms. Ruran is incredibly devoted to pursuing a future career in clinical research. She has currently authored 14 full-length peer-reviewed manuscripts, including 11 as first author, in journals such as Allergy, the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (JACI), and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open.
In 2025, she was selected to give two oral presentations on her project, “Gene by Environment Interactions Between IL-4 Variant and School Mouse Exposure: Health Disparity in the School Inner-City Allergy Study,” at the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) Annual Meeting in San Diego, California, and at the Dr. M. Judah Folkman Research Day at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She has since published this work as first author in JACI, titled “IL-4 Variant and School Mouse Exposure Increases Asthma Morbidity in Urban Schoolchildren.”
In 2024, Ms. Ruran was selected to give an oral presentation for her first-author case report, “Anaphylaxis in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: When Epi Could Kill You,” now published in Annals of Allergy. That same year, her study “Disparities in Allergy and Asthma Prevalence Among School Teachers” was selected as a Featured Poster at AAAAI and published in JACI. And she published “Household Food Allergen Exclusion Practices and Food Allergy–Related Psychosocial Functioning” in JAMA Network Open.