Sahana Prakash’s Post

I am thrilled to share that I will be working as an Associate Research Scientist in the Affective & Cognitive Therapeutics Laboratory at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai located on the Upper East Side in New York City starting this June! I am eager to conduct research work in the field of Neurobiology, Cell Biology and Psychiatry and I am very thankful to Dr. M. Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez and her research group for this amazing career opportunity! I would like to express my gratitude to Dr. Lauren V. Schnabel and Dr. Ashley Brown for an opportunity to begin my research journey in the Schnabel and Brown Laboratories at NC State University. They have given me endless support in both of my undergraduate and graduate school programs! I would also like to thank my PhD mentors, Drew W. Koch and Grant Scull for selecting me in the Summer Interdisciplinary Research Initiative (SIRI) program during my undergraduate years. In this program, I conducted a translational research project named “Development of a Co-Culture Model of Meniscus Injury to test Therapeutics for Prevention of Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis” which I presented at the Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) and the Comparative Medicine Institute (CMI) Symposiums at NC State University. I have attached my research poster/abstract to this post. :) Those of you who know me know that I am very excited and grateful for this career opportunity. Next stop, New York City!