Hi Everyone, I’m Abhi and I am partaking in the Brackenridge Research Fellowship. I am a rising senior studying neuroscience on the pre-med track. My project revolves around Gamma Knife Radiosurgery (GKRS), studying brain metastases originating from the nasopharynx region (NPC, an area between the nose and throat). GKRS is an invasive surgical technique involving…
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My Perspective on Research After HSRF
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…
Meeting My Cohort: Abhinav Pillai
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…
HSRF Intro: Abhinav Pillai
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…