Harry Min: Pursuing treatments for deadly neurodegenerative disease
My research focused on progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a devastating neurodegenerative disease that affects patients' movement, behavior, and cognition.
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Student Research
As graduate students near the end of their Ph.D. training at Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, they reflect on their research journeys, lessons they learned along the way, and their hopes for the future.
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Ramin Garmany: A big-data approach to understand a genetic heart disease
My research focused on a genetic heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) which causes the heart to become too large and can lead to abnormal heart rhythms, heart failure, and sudden death.
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Rameen Shah: Developing a mini brain to study a rare genetic disease
My graduate research focused on rare genetic disorders known as N-linked congenital disorders of glycosylation, or CDG.
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Read past profiles of our students and their research organized by research track in the Ph.D. program.
Biochemistry and molecular biology track
Luke Doskey: Student Analyzes Cell-to-Cell Communication in Disease
Keenan Pearson: Student Optimizes a DNA-Based Tool to Address Disease
Pei Yi Ng: Aiming to Mitigate Alzheimer’s Disease
Rameen Shah: Developing a Mini Brain to Study a Rare Genetic Disease
Biomedical engineering and physiology track
Sydney Gorman Hillan: Exploring Psychiatric Effects of DBS for Parkinson’s Disease
Tory Marks: A Student’s Approach to Real-Time Seizure Detection
Lydia Bardwell Speltz: Testing Cutting-Edge Compact MRI Technology
Clinical and translational science track
Immunology track
Cori Fain: New Drug Targets for Cerebral Malaria
Cody Fisher: Taking on Antibiotic Resistance
Joanina Gicobi: Energizing Immune Cells to Fight Cancer
Jyoti Kumari Lama: Addressing Life-Threatening Allergic Reactions
No photo - Anjali Jacob Panicker: Aiming to Improve the Experience of Organ Transplant
Molecular pharmacology and experimental therapeutics track
Zack Aibaidula, M.D.: Becoming a Scientist to Help Patients with Brain Cancer
Matthew Baker: Student Identifies Neurons Related to Addictive Behavior
Kevin Gao: Reengineering Heart Cells to Understand Sudden Cardiac Death
Ramin Garmany: A Big-Data Approach to Understand a Genetic Heart Disease
Deborah Msekela: Sleep-Related Epilepsy
Glancis Luzeena Raja: Taking on Pancreatic Cancer
Tianchu Wang: Halting Kidney Cancer