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Grace Steffen

Notre Dame '25

Grace Steffen

Grace Steffen is a student at the University of Notre Dame with the class of 2025 majoring in the Biological Sciences with minors in Accountancy and Compassionate Care in Medicine. Grace plans to attend medical school after graduation. She is a member of the Sorin Scholars Research Program and has worked as a research assistant at Notre Dame since Spring 2022. She joined the REDI-NET team in the Summer of 2022 where she worked on tick imaging and identification in the laboratory. She pursued her own independent research project on identifying route of pathogen transmission to provide a flag on mNGS outcome reports while continuing to assist in the Achee/Grieco lab.

This work is supported by the US Army Medical Research and Development Command under Contract No.W81XWH-21-C-0001, W81XWH-22-C-0093, HT9425-23-C-0059 and HT9425-24-C-0072. The views, opinions and/or findings contained in this report are those of the author(s) and should not be construed as an official Department of the Army or Navy position, policy or decision unless so designated by other documentation.