Aayush Sarkar Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Operate one of the internet’s 5 largest Arsenal Football Club news pages – Arsenal Transfer Speculation and News (Arsenal TSN) – with over 800K Facebook fans; manage a team of 5+ content creators; negotiate & manage affiliate marketing partnerships with various sports media companies (including Sportskeeda, PunditArena, Paddy Power) to generate revenue

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Rochester, New York, Us

• Designed, executed, and analyzed clinical trials of digital health technologies to assess Parkinson’s disease• Spearheaded social media initiatives featuring personal stories of Parkinson’s patients and caregivers, a digital health leadership talk series, and ParkinsonTV, an educational series with 100,000+ worldwide viewers• Initiated grassroots advocacy effort involving 30,000 patients to ban Parkinson’s inducing pesticides, resulting in EPA ban

Us

• Under the mentorship of dermatologist Dr. Pamela Weinfeld at her practice, performed crucial tasks in support of clinical care such as scribing and interviewing patients to obtain medical history• Performed supporting tasks in dermatologic surgery such as wound care and suture removal• Coordinated care; including addressing patients’ concerns and queries, communicating Dr. Weinfeld’s medical advice, informing patients of biopsy results, and submitting prior authorization requests• Performed narrowband UVB treatment of psoriasis/vitiligo patients; determined treatment doses and delivered XTRAC laser treatment to affected areas; monitored post-treatment symptoms

Baltimore, Md, Us

• Designed a novel therapeutic siRNA-aptamer chimera for knock-down of alpha-globin expression in the reticulocytes of beta-thalassemia patients• Performed DNA cloning and in vitro transcription to produce 4 different siRNAs, targeting human alpha-globin, in large quantities• Cultured K562 cells for electroporation and transfection of the 4 siRNAs; used RT-qPCR to measure alpha-globin expression and FACS analysis to measure internalization• Processed and analyzed RT-qPCR data to evaluate efficacy of each siRNA

Baltimore, Md, Us

• Operated RedCap, a software for research databases, to store cognitive test results, patient history, and CSF collection information, for the longitudinal study on biomarkers for Parkinson’s Disease • Participated in consensus conferences with neurologists determining the extent of cognitive impairment in specific patients, in order to supply data to the MARK-PD Biomarkers study• Shadowed neurologists at weekly Parkinson’s Disease Clinic; shadowed Dr. Rosenthal at monthly Ataxia Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center

Baltimore, Md, Us

• Maintained, updated & managed database in a study of JAK2 mutations using transgenic mice• Analyzed effect of genotype, age, and gender on blood counts; presented charts at weekly lab meeting

Baltimore, Md, Us

• Advised undergraduate students, in weekly consultations, on time management and test-taking skills • Participated in workshops and seminars on academic strategies for Johns Hopkins students

• Reviewed and edited research papers for the Indian Journal of Pediatrics; prepared a presentation, to be delivered by Dr. Rashid Merchant, on the genetics of metabolic bone disease• Attended weekly case discussions on unique mental impairments at the New Horizons Child Development Centre• Shadowed Dr. Rashid Merchant in the pediatric ward and thalassemia clinic