Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
I am currently a 5th year medical student at the University of Cambridge, having graduated with a 1st class BA in Natural Sciences (specialising in Physiology, Development and Neuroscience). I was awarded a Parke Davies Exchange Fellowship to work as a Visiting Researcher at Stanford University in the Lundberg Lab, between my 3rd and 4th year of medical school.
I am currently working on a research project supervised by Dr Shruti Agrawal in the Paediatrics Intensive Care Department. We are investigating the applicability of the IMPACT model and developing our own models for predicting outcomes in paediatric traumatic brain injury.
I worked as a Visiting Student Researcher in the Lundberg Lab at Stanford University, which specialises in spatial proteomics. I was involved with a team of researchers working on the Cancer Grand Challenge named Prominent, which investigates which factors contribute to cancer development. This project was fully funded by the Parke Davies Exchange Fellowship and the Lundberg Lab. Skills: - Highly Multiplexed Imaging (Phenocycler Fusion) - Cell Culture - Microscopy (LSCM) - Image Analysis - Python
For my final-year undergraduate project, I undertook a nine month research project in the lab of Professor Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri, under the supervision of Dr Jorge Lopez-Tello. The project was titled 'Decoding the importance of placental endocrine function in determining maternal metabolic health during lactation’. I was awarded a 1st class grade for my thesis and viva, with a mark of 75/100. Skills: - qPCR - Western Blotting - Immunohistochemistry and Slide Preparation - Histological Image Analysis - Data Analysis
I worked on a research team in conjunction with the Cambridgeshire County Council to investigate factors that affect the mental health and suicide risk in young people between ages 18-25. The focus of my research was risk factors and community health interventions in student populations and in care leavers. The final report was titled “What factors impact the mental health of young people aged 18-25? How can issues including self-harm be addressed by mental health services and the wider community?“ and included a number of suggestions to improve interventions at a policy level. The report has been read by the local Head of Public Health and Council Corporate Leadership Team. This work was part of the 2022 CUSPE Policy Challenges with Cambridgeshire County Council.
I was selected by Prof Annette Wu to work on research about the internationalisation of medical education. I helped to conduct a literature review, before analysing the data. The final paper was published in Medical Science Educator, titled “Internationalization of Medical Education — Motivations and Formats of Current Practices”