Hello! My name is Maryam. I am currently a rising second-year graduate student in the Catana lab at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging. I am interested in brain PET-MRI. In particular, I am interested in developing methods for dual-tracer PET imaging to study simultaneous neurotransmitter kinetics in Parkinson Disease & Schizophrenia, and to broadly study receptor-receptor interactions in the brain.
Quick Info
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I am a candidate at the Harvard MD-PhD program. I am completing my medical training in Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology (HST) program, and my PhD in the Harvard Biophysics program.
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I finished my undergrad at Harvard College with a degree in chemistry and physics in May 2021.
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During my gap year I worked in the Yun Lab at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine working on micron-sized laser particle technology for single cell tagging.
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Undergraduate research: I worked on laser cooling and magneto - optical trapping of potassium-39 at the Doyle Lab. You can find my thesis here.
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If not doing research, you can bet with a success rate of 99% that I am either taking photos, charcoal drawing, hanging out with my cat Jasper, or potentially all of the above at the same time!