First person – Sai Sanwid Pradhan

First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Sai Pradhan is first author on ‘ Integrated multi-omics analysis of Huntington disease identifies pathways that modulate protein aggregation’, published in DMM. Sai Sanwid is a PhD Student in the lab of Venketesh Sivaramakrishnan at the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, Anantapur, India, investigating neurodegenerative diseases, like Huntington disease, which are caused by protein aggregation. His research interest is focused on understanding the mechanisms associated with disease progression and identifying potential biomarkers associated with progression and prognosis, as well as therapeutic targets and agents that confer neuroprotection for better management of the disease.