Harini Gangadharan

Having travelled from India to the United States to do my master’s degree, I have enjoyed every step of the way through my learnings of lab functioning and research with varying degrees of failure and successes. My primary area of interest is neurology and oncology research and as a graduate student, I started working in a brain metastatic breast cancer with Dr. Jason Bush to identify potential biomarkers in triple-negative breast cancer. My experience in graduate school and research have improved my technical and interpersonal skills. My project involved 2D and 3D cell culture, qPCR, RT-PCR, and cell-based assays, microscopy imaging and data analysis
I also had an opportunity to present my research at the CSUBiotech at Santa Clara, CA and at CCRS at Fresno which gave me a chance to connect with the scientific community and I won the best poster presentation award. My potential goal is to contribute my experiences to the scientific community and continue fighting towards illnesses.