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Medical Student
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Shikha Singh, B.S., is a fourth‐year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine. After growing up in Fremont, California, she graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.S. in Neuroscience. At Hopkins, her research involved studying the pathology of Parkinson’s Disease at the NIH, working on an anxiety in Parkinson’s Disease clinical trial, and creating a model to predict executive decision making in rhesus macaques. At Penn, her research with Dr. Isaac Chen studies the potential of brain organoids as an avenue to repair cortical damage namely in the motor cortex of rats. Overall, her interest in Parkinson’s Disease and its surgical treatments such as deep brain stimulation are what brought her to the field of neurosurgery.