Eesha Chakraborty

Eesha is an undergraduate student majoring in Neuroscience at UCLA. She has explored her longstanding interest in the field of neurology which has been primarily driven by her family's personal encounters with neurodegenerative diseases. In hopes of advancing the current understanding of this field, she joined the Bitan Lab in the Summer of 2023 and is studying exophers, an emerging cellular component of neurobiology, in health, aging, and degenerative diseases.