University: University of Massachusetts
Hometown: Las Cruces, NM
NIH Research Project:
Neurogenesis in the Subependymal Zone of the Rhesus Monkey
Mentor: Mortimer Mishkin, Ph.D.
Section on Cognitive Neuroscience
National Institute of Mental Health
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I was born in Krasnoyarsk, Russia, and have lived in Germany, France, and Canada, but the United States is my adopted home. This country has embraced me kindly, granting me the opportunity for academic and personal growth.
I graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the spring of 2001. I am grateful to the UGSP for offering me the opportunity to attend this academic institution by covering most of my tuition and living expenses and by providing me with valuable guidance through my intellectual journey. I am also excited about working at the NIH during the upcoming year, prior to my enrollment in graduate school. Under the mentorship of Dr. Mortimer Mishkin, chief of the Section on Cognitive Neuroscience in the National Institute of Mental Health, I am monitoring neurogenesis in rhesus monkeys. This research is critical for the design of drugs to fight neurodegenerative illnesses like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
At the University of Massachusetts at Amherst I completed an honor's thesis diagramming the purification of recombinant cysteine dioxygenase. Malfunction of this protein has been correlated to hypertension and tumor proliferation. I hope that future students will get the opportunities I was fortunate enough to be offered by the UGSP. |
