Amisha Kumar Email & Phone Number

Orange County, California, United States

Initiated a project on the demographics of the Down Syndrome population of Orange County to identify the number of potential recruits the program could expect for the study and the barriers that would prevent these potential recruits from participating in early 2020Presented on this project to all departments in the UCI Down Syndrome in July 2020 and February 2021, which was used for the NIH grant renewal of the studyBegan training an AI algorithm to quantify amyloid pathology in the brain tissue of individuals with Down Syndrome in 2020Established and lead a study to find correlations between clinical comorbidities and vascular pathology in individuals with Down SyndromePresented at two international conferences, the Alzheimer's Association Neuroscience Next Conference and the World Down Syndrome Conference on the studyAbstract published in December 2021 by the Alzheimer's AssociationTrained an AI algorithm and acquired data using Aperio ImageScope software to quantitate the following proteins of interest in brain tissue: beta-amyloid, astrocytes, and microglia.

Participated in weekly clinical visits for participantsPerformed physical and neurological examinations from January 2019 until March 2020Completed participant intake forms for medical historyAssisted in preparing participants for MRI and PET scans

Plan and teach weekly Taekwondo lessons to adults with Down SyndromeReceived the honor of being named the Volunteer of the Year in 2021

Organized the five-day camp instructing students in one of four disciplines: Anatomy and Physiology, Chemistry, Engineering, and Field ScienceCoordinated volunteer signups for each of the four classesReviewed and edited the curriculum for the Anatomy and Physiology classGuided students through medical terminology and fetal pig dissection over the five-day period

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Neuroscience, Freshman

Activities and Societies: Freshman Science Honors, Thematic Option Program, USC Mobile Clinic, Trojan Scholars SocietyTrustee Scholarship.

Troy Tech And Ib Diploma Candidate, Neuroscience

Activities and Societies: Troy Science Olympiad, National Honor Society, Biology OlympiadValedictorian; 4.0 unweighted GPA, 5.0 academic.