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Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Anuragh Sriram is a senior at UNC Chapel Hill and serves as a clinical research assistant with Dr. Dominique Higgins in the Department of Neurosurgery at the UNC School of Medicine. There, he investigates how PFAS and other environmental triggers modulate brain tumorigenesis, and how that further impacts patient responses to immunotherapy. Anuragh is also a research assistant in the Department of Neurology, where he studies the role of the microglial NLRP3 inflammasome in promoting neuroinflammation and amyloid-beta fibrillization in Alzheimer's disease. He has recently published a review article on the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neurodegeneration.
His research interests broadly revolve around neuroimmunology as it relates to the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases and primary brain tumors. Previously, Anuragh served as a research assistant at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Durham. Here, he gained invaluable experience in neurotoxicology and cellular neurobiology. He currently serves on the Executive Board for the North Carolina Society of Toxicology.
After graduation, Anuragh aspires to obtain an MD/PhD and practice neurosurgical oncology while running a lab that further studies the critical role of microglia in the pathogenesis of GBM and Alzheimer's disease.