Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- PhD Student, PhD Program in Pharmacology & Physiology
- PhD Student, Forcelli Lab
- PhD Students, Glasgow Lab
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