Ankit is the host of the Brain Bee Podcast and serves as an editor for the podcast, The Unbiased Estimator. Ankit graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2020 with a degree in Biology on the Neuroscience Track. He served as the St. Louis Area Brain Bee Coordinator for the competition in 2019 and 2020 and has been heavily engaged with neuroscience outreach efforts since 2016. In college, Ankit worked in the lab of Dr. David Holtzman to investigate the mechanisms behind the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's Disease. Today, Ankit is doing research in the lab of Dr. Michael Tadross at Duke University where he is utilizing a novel technology called Drugs Acutely Restricted by Tethering (DART) to study dopaminergic circuits in mouse models of Parkinson's Disease. He is currently applying to medical school with the intention of matriculating in the Summer of 2023.

Twitter: @iAnkitChoudhury