With the HSRF coming to a close, I learned many new things about my own research as well as the studies of other health science scholars at Pitt. During the school year, I was unable to commit fully to research due to time constraints with classes and other commitments, but over the summer I was…

Through the HSRF, I hope to learn all about other students’ research within their respective fields. I work in a psychiatry lab which focuses primarily on behavioral tests in mice and their applications with OCD. Thus, I hope to gain more insight not only in other labs who study mice, but also to learn from…

Hi everyone, my name is Abhinav Pillai and I’m a rising junior and neuroscience major here at Pitt. I work in Dr. Susanne Ahmari’s lab where we study the neural correlates of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in mice. OCD is a severe mental illness characterized by repeated behaviors (compulsions) and continuous unwanted thoughts and fears…