Abrisham Eskandari
About Me
Abrisham is a Masters Student in the Biomedical Sciences (MSBS) program. Under the mentorship of Dr. David Goukassian and Dr. Fadi Akar at the Cardiovascular Research Center, she is currently working on a NASA funded project looking at the effects of low dose ionizing radiation on cardiovascular disease risk and its quantification.
She obtained her bachelors in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh along with a minor in Political Science. In her undergraduate research career, under the direction of Dr. Daniel Lambrecht, she took a computational approach into assessing the structure-spectra relation of glutamine peptides (indicated in the pathogenesis of many neurodegenerative diseases) and their Raman spectra by conducting molecular dynamics simulations. Following clinical cardiology experience at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and interested in gaining wet lab experience, she joined Dr. Akar's lab. Ultimately she ended up on a project under the primary mentorship of Dr. Goukassian. Additionally, the MATLAB experience she gained in her coursework, once again sparked her interest in computational work, expanding her work into the field of bioinformatics, looking at changes in gene expression of mice exposed to variable types and doses of radiation.
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About Me
Abrisham is a Masters Student in the Biomedical Sciences (MSBS) program. Under the mentorship of Dr. David Goukassian and Dr. Fadi Akar at the Cardiovascular Research Center, she is currently working on a NASA funded project looking at the effects of low dose ionizing radiation on cardiovascular disease risk and its quantification.
She obtained her bachelors in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh along with a minor in Political Science. In her undergraduate research career, under the direction of Dr. Daniel Lambrecht, she took a computational approach into assessing the structure-spectra relation of glutamine peptides (indicated in the pathogenesis of many neurodegenerative diseases) and their Raman spectra by conducting molecular dynamics simulations. Following clinical cardiology experience at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and interested in gaining wet lab experience, she joined Dr. Akar's lab. Ultimately she ended up on a project under the primary mentorship of Dr. Goukassian. Additionally, the MATLAB experience she gained in her coursework, once again sparked her interest in computational work, expanding her work into the field of bioinformatics, looking at changes in gene expression of mice exposed to variable types and doses of radiation.
