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Medical Student
Stanford University School of Medicine, US
Sina Sadeghzadeh, MS3 Stanford University
Sina Sadeghzadeh, from Zanjan, Iran, is pursuing the Berg Scholars Program (MD/MS) at Stanford School of Medicine. He graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a major in neuroscience and minor in economics. Sina aspires to become a physician-scientist working to develop novel treatments for complex neurocognitive and neuropsychiatric conditions. His research focuses on understanding disease-specific circuit mechanisms of cognitive control and translational electrical, genetic, and molecular approaches for restoring function. Outside of school, Sina is an avid cyclist and has biked across the United States fundraising for young adults with cancer through the Ulman Foundation. He has been named a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, John Harvard Scholar, Berg Scholar, REACH Scholar, Schweitzer Fellow, Graduate Public Service Fellow, Medical Scholars Fellow, and Klingenstein Fellow and has received external funding from various sources including the Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA), Neurosurgery Research & Education Foundation (NREF), American Academy of Neurology (AAN), Pars Equality Center/Hamid and Christina Moghadam (PEC/Moghadam), and the National Institute of Health (NIH T32 Award).