Manwani Lab

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Bharti Manwani, MD/PhD – Associate Professor

Education & Training
MD SN Medical College – Agra, India
PhD University of Connecticut Health Center – Farmington, CT
Residency Neurology, University of Connecticut – Farmington, CT
Fellowship Vascular Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Boston, MA

Areas of Interest
Clinical & research interests: vascular neurology, stroke in women, cardioembolic strokes, Cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and general neurology

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Heather Tolcher – MD Student Research Assistant

Education & Training
BASc Biochemistry and French, The University of Texas – Austin, TX (2018)
MD McGovern Medical School – Houston, TX (2020-Current)

Areas of Interest
Research interests: general neurology, neuropsychiatry, and machine learning

Research & Experience
I am currently researching ischemic stroke and cytokine biomarkers in the Manwani Lab at McGovern Medical School. Previously, I studied plant molecular biology at UT Austin, neuroimmunology at the Mayo Clinic, regenerative medicine at the University of Oxford, stem cell biology and machine learning at the Sanford Consortium of Regenerative medicine, and diffusion tensor imaging at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Hobbies & Interests
Painting, the McGovern Art Club, ballet, and playing Dungeons and Dragons with family and friends.

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