Hey! Thanks for visiting. My name is Nina and I'm a senior @ Harvard studying computational neuroscience with a minor in math. The above question is one I ask myself every day, to be very honest, and I'm still not certain I have a complete answer.
Neurodegenerative diseases take the souls of those we love far before they are actually gone.
One thing that's core to who I am is a deep passion for improving the human condition, and one of the ways I want to do that is by fighting neurodegeneration. These conditions are uniquely devastating, and I want to spend my life working on them an heling patients and their families.
Right now I'm doing that through decoding cognitive resilience to Alzheimer's at the MIT Tsai Lab, co-directing Harvard's Alzheimer's Buddies volunteer program, and meta-thinking about science at EngineeringX, among other things.
I'd love to hear from you, whether it's about research, collaborations, or just to say hi.