My Internships:

Harvard Medical School:

Remote Research Student at Harvard Medical School, BIDMC in the lab of Prof Nucera (07/2022-02/2025)

  • Carried out single-cell data analysis on Pericytes (cells that wrap around blood vessels) from 15 cancers

  • Developed a novel pan-cancer pericytes signature that associates pericytes with poor cancer outcomes

  • Accepted abstracts at the Atlanta Workshop on single cell Omics [Got 1st place award for best poster] and at the Annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting (April 2025, Chicago)

  • The manuscript will be submitted for Publication to the Journal of Cancer Research from AACR.

Emory School of Medicine:

FCS Gifted Internship at the Emory Empathetic AI for Health Institute in the laboratory of Professor Anant Madabhushi (July 2025 - Present)

  • Delivered a seminar on a review of AI-based approaches for the analysis of medical histopathology slide images

  • Implemented AI models for analysis of histopathology images for cancer, immune, and stromal cells detection

  • Currently working on implementing AI workflow for virtual detection of immune cells on +10,000 slides from different cancers to assess cellular profile associations with progression

Ohio University:

  • Research Internship at Diabetes Institute of Ohio University in the Lab of Dr Vishwajeet Puri (Nov 2024 - April 2025)

    • Performed RNA-sequencing on brain tissue samples of mice with silencing (removal) of the Fsp27 gene

    • RNA-sequencing data analysis using R/Bioconductor to identify the gene signature of those genes affected by removal

    • Resulted in a shared first-authored manuscript that is currently under review in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) and available as a Preprint on bioRxiv

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Independent Research:

  • Independent Aging related Research (March 2025 - Aug 2025)

    • Brainstormed with a group of friends to understand the biology of aging and the health problems associated with it.

    • Led the discussion on established biological aging biomarkers (telomere length, methylation clocks, proteomic/metabolomic models, retinal imaging).

    • Proposed a simple, naive-to-exhausted T cell ratio measurement as a biomarker of aging.

    • Performed analysis on genomics data to explore association of naive-to-exhausted T-cell with cancer survival

    • The first-authored article based on this is currently under review in Frontiers of Aging Journal.

PGIMER

  • Clinical Shadowing at PGIMER, India at Endocrinology and Podiatry Clinic (07/2021-08/2021)

    • Observed a team of clinicians treating patients with diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), a major complication of Diabetes

    • Collect wound images and clinical information for a project to predict DFUs infection using AI

    • Presented abstract at the Atlanta Workshop on single-cell Omics in 2023

    • Coauthored an article based on this work in Frontiers in Endocrinology

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Awards(Based On Internships)

  • Georgia Junior Science And Humanities Symposium- Top 40 in State

  • AACR Special Program for High School Students: “The Conquest of Cancer and the Next Generation of Cancer Researchers- Poster Presenter- Top 50 Applicants

  • Atlanta Workshop on single cell Omics(AWSOM) Best Poster Award

    • All based on Research of Pericytes from Harvard Internship