Hanya was a research assistant working in the genetics lab in the UK Dementia Research Institute who helped to co-ordinate the genetic samples in the GENFI and LIFTD studies. She had previously done a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Kent and an MRes in Molecular and Cellular Bioscience from Imperial College London. She left to study Medicine at Anglia Ruskin University.
- AAIC 2021 (virtual, July 2021): Dual pathogenic mutations in SQSTM1 and C9orf72 as a cause of frontotemporal dementia with primary lateral sclerosis
- ARUK 2021 (virtual, March 2021): Dual pathogenic mutations in SQSTM1 and C9orf72 as a cause of frontotemporal dementia with primary lateral sclerosis