Saurabh Sudesh was an undergraduate student at University of Pennsylvania majoring in biochemistry and planning to submatriculate in chemistry. Saurabh worked in the lab from September 2015 to May 2018. He was in the Vagelos Scholars Program in Molecular Life Sciences. Saurabh was also a tutor, a volunteer at HUP, and a player on an intramural soccer team. He enjoys playing guitar and exercising in his free time. In 2017, Saurabh graduated with a M.S. in Chemistry and B.A. in Biochemistry. Saurabh went on to pursue his M.D. at Columbia University.

Publication

Tariq, A.*, J. Lin*, M.E. Jackrel*, C.D. Hesketh, P.J. Carman, K.L. Mack, R. Weitzman, C. Gambogi, O.A. Hernandez Murillo, E.A. Sweeny, E. Gurpinar, A.L. Yokom, S.N. Gates, K. Yee, S. Sudesh, J. Stillman, A.N. Rizo, D.R. Southworth, and J. Shorter. (2019). Mining disaggregase sequence space to safely counter TDP-43, FUS, and alpha-synuclein proteotoxicity. Cell Rep. 28(8):2080–2095. pdf file link (*Co-first author).