World Brain Day Neuroscientist Features!
The human brain is our most important organ, and today is kind of like it’s birthday, so let’s celebrate! Every year, on July 22nd, we come together to celebrate World Brain Day, which is an international day meant for raising awareness about brain health and promoting the importance of brain research. We are going to take this opportunity to highlight three amazing BIPOC neuroscientists that are doing really interesting research on the brain and nervous systems!
Inspiring Neuroscientists!
Anamika Choudhary MSc is working towards her PhD in Neuroscience with The University of Calgary and the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Canada. She is specializing in pediatric epilepsy and has done various projects trying to understand seizures and epilepsy and how to treat them. A lot of her research is focused on how metabolic therapies can impact the nervous system, for example how ketogenic diets could help infantile spasms. Her work is extremely important to help create treatments that could help to improve lives for people of all ages suffering from seizures.
Dr. Andrés Romero-Carvajal is an Ecuadorian scientist with a PhD in Neurobiology and Anatomy from the University of Utah. He’s currently a principal professor and investigator at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE). Andrés' research focuses on fish and flatworm development and regeneration. In the Neurobiology field, he studied the evolution and development of the sensory systems in fish and how they develop differently under various conditions. Andrés is a remarkable Latin American scientist in the field of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology who has made a lot of important discoveries throughout his career
Dr. Sade Spencer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Minnesota. She is a well-known and important researcher that focuses on understanding how our brains handle rewards, and how this can lead to substance abuse. With a background in biology and neuroscience, Dr. Spencer completed her Ph.D. at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and did her post doc training at the Medical University of South Carolina. Now, her lab uses different disciplines to try to understand mental health and substance abuse. Her work strives to better understand all the complex parts of how our brain and nervous system work, in order to help treat mental health and addiction issues.
There are many brilliant scientists working to understand the fascinating nervous systems in humans and other animals, and the work is very inspiring! World Brain Day is a great time to shine light on the importance of brain health, neuroscience research, mental health, and all things about the brain! If you know a neuroscientist working on interesting projects, make sure to share it with us on Instagram or Twitter!
