Raisa Karim
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Raisa Karim graduated from Hunter College double majoring in Biochemistry and Thomas Hunter Honors (mini concentration on Asian American literature). She was a part of the Yalow Honors Scholars program, secretary of Hunter’s Pre Health Organization, a General Chemistry Peer TA and an Undergraduate Student Government senator.
he started her research career with Dr. Allyson K. Friedman and Regis Shanley in the Friedman laboratory on stress susceptibility and resilience in mice. In the summer of 2018, she worked on a project concerning the effect of estrogen on stress coping mechanisms in female mice. In the summer of 2019, she worked with Dr. Corey Baimel and Dr. Adam Carter on encoding valence in the basolateral amygdala to nucleus accumbens circuits using retrograde injections, brain slicing and microscopy. She is pursuing an MD/PhD career because she wants to gain a deeper appreciation for the benchwork needed to innovate solutions in the clinical setting. |