Anjik Ghosh

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Patrick Forcelli, Dr. Eric Glasgow

Research Interests: Neurophysiology, Neuropharmacology, Developmental Biology

Education:

University of Maryland, B.S. Neurobiology & Physiology, 2018

Georgetown University, M.S. Physiology and Biophysics, 2023

About: Anjik is researching the toxicological profiles of anti-seizures medications(ASMs) to determine the safety & efficacy of clinical pharmacotherapies that are administered to early-life patients. Developmental toxicology experiments are conventionally conducted in rodents, but have notable drawbacks: experiments take significant time and expenditure to design, conduct, and analyze adequately-powered studies to observe the toxic effects of drugs.

Anjik’s research uses zebrafish to more efficiently model ASM-induced developmental toxicity compared to rodent models. This zebrafish model of developmental toxicity will be used to conduct large-scale screens of ASMs whose toxicological profiles have not been well-characterized.

Rotations:

Dr. Alexey Ostroumov

Dr. Tinatin Brelidze

Dr. Daniel Pak