Pranay Reddy Gadikota

Biography:

Pranay Reddy Gadikota is a high school senior at Buchholz High School, Florida, with a strong research interest in neuropsychiatric disorders and aging. He conducted a bibliometric analysis on caregiver burden in Lewy Body Dementia, submitted for publication in Parkinsonism and Related Disorders (Elsevier), and is first author of two additional submitted works. His clinical and caregiving experiences, including 300+ hours as a hospice volunteer and years as a primary caregiver for his great-grandmother with dementia, inform his passion for neuroscience and translational medicine. Pranay aspires to pursue an MD-PhD in neuropsychiatry and aging-related care.