Stanford Neuroscience Journal Club
Teaching Kids How to Read and Interpret Scientific Publications
Scientific publications remain the key mechanism for scientists to communicate the results of their original scientific research and findings to the field of medicine. The Stanford Neuroscience Journal Club was initiated by faculty members, Dr. Odette Harris in the Department of Neurosurgery and Dr. Reena Thomas in the Department of Neurology. The intent of this group is to mentor high-school scientists in the critical analysis of a scientific paper and encourage participants to consider a career in the Neurosciences. Our once-per-month meetings offer students an opportunity to read and discuss scientific literature and newsworthy developments in the field of neuroscience in a low-pressure environment, with expert Stanford scientists. There are no coursework prerequisites for participation, just a curiosity for science and a desire to learn how to understand scientific literature.
Application information
The application period is April 1 through May 12, 2027, with applications closing on May 12 at 11:59 PM PT. Late applications cannot be accepted.
Application and criteria information:
- Must be in high school during the 2026-2027 school year
- International students are welcome to apply
Are you a middle school student curious about neuroscience?
We’re excited to introduce a new middle school track in our program this year! Explore fascinating ideas from neuroscience, connect with others who share your interests, and take part in a few engaging sessions.
No prior experience needed, just curiosity and a willingness to learn.
Apply here before April 30th at 11:59 pm PT:
2026-2027 Meetings
*Tentative Schedule, Some Dates Subject to Change
*All meetings take place via Zoom
Students are expected to attend these meetings as an important part of their participation in the Club. Meeting dates are on Tuesdays at 4 PM PT.
- September 1, 2026
- October 6, 2026
- November 3, 2026
- December 1, 2026
- February 2, 2027
- March 2, 2027
- April 6, 2027
- May 11, 2027
Student Leaders
Ishani Atluri
Madeline Cheng
Folasade Fapohunda
Arundhathi Jathin
Rishika Karri
Ekam Kaur
Aidan Kwon
Ela Rees
Kai Hewett Sagar
Lily Vaughn
Finn Vos
Athena Xing
Selena Zhang
Advisory Board
Capri Gavino, Lead Advisor
Soha Budhani
Sienna Burnette
Amanda Chen
Mona Pandit
Diya Patel
- Aadiya Satauri
- Aadya Sapkal
- Aadya Garg
- Aafia Rasheed
- Aakya Manamperi
- Aanika Garg
- Aanika Kapoor
- Aanya Kandala
- Aanya Karthik
- Aarit Sriramu
- Aarna Dusane
- Aashika Cheruvu
- Aashna Gupta
- Aashna Parsa
- Aashrith Korampally
- Aasia Irfan
- Aayushi Sanghani Jorgensen
- Aayushya Patel
- Abby Jerdee
- Abigail liju
- Abigail Huang
- Abtin Timsari
- Abtin Asghari
- Adham Sattorov
- Adhidha Srinivasan
- Adhvaith Harimohan
- Aditi Duggal
- Aditri Eswaran
- Aditya Ramesh
- Adrian Rodriguez
- Ahadi Yara
- Ahliddin Ilxomjonov
- Ahmadjonova Durdona
- Aidan Kwon
- Aiden Duggal
- Aireli Rubio
- Aisha Abedin
- Aishwarya Sundarmurthy
- Akshaj Somisetty
- Akshay Malhotra
- Akshaya Gopalakrishnan
- Albert Wen
- Aleesha Haider
- Alessia Ioana Brinzarea Iamandi
- Alexa Khan
- Alexis Leo
- Alia Chandiramani
- Alice Masliy
- Alina Jani
- Alina Paulose
- Alisha Xu
- Allison Park
- Alyssa Lee
- Alyssa Ong
- Alyssa Leo
- Amanda Lee
- Amaryllis Barajas
- Amelia Abbas
- Amelia Josephine Brunkan
- Ameya Balaji
- Aminabonu Farxodova
- Amirah Tran
- Amishi Sahni
- Amishi Shrivastava
- Amit Biligiri
- Amogh Saladi
- Amulya Jayaram
- Amy Bastola
- Anahata Guha
- Anaira Phadke
- Anandleen Kaur Sahi
- Ananya Pradeep
- Ananya Satish
- Ananya Borkar
- Anas Quaba
- Anaya Azer
- Andrea Hsu
- Andrea Davila
- Andres Patino
- Aneesh Potakamuri
- Aneesha Pathak
- Angad Hayer
- Angela Niu
- Anh Phan Nguyen
- Ani Ustyan
- Anika Jolly
- Anika Venkatesh
- Anika Ravi
- Anika Arora
- Anika Easwaran
- Anika Godavarti
- Anisha Bhavsar
- Anjali Ambati
- Anjali Mathew
- Anjali Batta
- Anna Victor
- Annabelle Lim
- Annabelle Shek
- Anoushka Jasrai
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- Anubhav Chatterjee
- Anuka Samanta
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- Anvar Ravshanov
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- Jacob Kim
- Jaden Chun
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- Jasmine Ye
- Jasmine Zheng
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- Jeffrey Xiang
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- Selena Ghane
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- Tianyi Chen
- Tianyi He
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- Vedika Gautam
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- Veronika Moskalenko
- Vibha Giri
- Victoria Yoo
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- Vidhuni Kotalawala
- Vihaan Rawal
- Vijval Ramaiah
- Vinan Adhikesavan
- Vinitha Kumar
- Vinuthna Yerra
- Violet Ledesma
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- Vivian Yang
- Vivien Wittstruck
- Vunal Jinasundera
- Vyaas Chathoth
- Vyom Krishna
- Wasi Haque Azan
- Wideline Cenoble
- Wing Pui Brianne Ngan
- Winnie Chan
- Wuraola Olanipekun
- Ximena Valer
- Xushnud Shomurotov
- Yahminisakti Chandrasekaran
- Yao Chang
- Yara Al-Daggistany
- Yashasvi Purohit
- Yasmina Shukurova
- Yatharth Mahajan
- Yihan Tang
- Yuhan Hua
- Yuhan (Jessie) Hu
- Yuliana Katolyk
- Yunha Ko
- Yunn Lee
- Yuri Seo
- Yusra Khan
- Zafrin Buhari
- Zahara Arora
- Zainab Khan
- Zara Lee
- Zarghuna Khan
- Zaynab To'xtamurodova
- Zayniddin Xamidzoda
- Zhenrui Gu
- Ziqing Chen
- Ziyoda Muhiddinova
- Zoe Kung
- Zoe Lall
- Zokhirullo Abdumannobov
- Zora Chou
- Zuhra Vohidova
- Zuhra Jurakulova
- Zynab Fatima
Our Team
Contact Julia Blanchet and Maria Ceja with questions.
Odette Harris, MD, MPH
Professor of Neurosurgery
Director, Brain Injury
Department of Neurosurgery
Dr. Odette Harris specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI), and conducts TBI research with a focus on epidemiology and outcomes. Dr. Harris serves in leadership positions at both Stanford and the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Health Care System.
Neelam Goyal, MD
Clinical Professor, Division of Neuromuscular Medicine Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Wellbeing Director, Neurology Department
Dr. Goyal focuses on the diagnosis, management, and electrophysiological testing of neuromuscular disorders, including SFEMG. Her expertise extends to immune-mediated disorders such as myositis, myasthenia gravis, CIDP, and vasculitis. Her research interests involve monitoring and managing the short and long-term toxicity of immunosuppressive agents. She is actively involved in a grant-supported project investigating steroid toxicity in patients with myasthenia gravis.
David J. Park, MD, PhD, FCNS
Clinical Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
Dr. David Park, MD, PhD, is a neurosurgeon who graduated from medical school at the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul, South Korea. He completed his internship and residency training in the Department of Neurosurgery at Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital. He became a board-certified neurosurgeon in South Korea in 2014 and subsequently completed a 2-year fellowship at the same hospital, specializing in brain tumor surgery and skull base surgery. During his residency, he also attended graduate school while practicing neurosurgery as a trainee and successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, titled “Combination therapy for gliomas using temozolomide and interferon-beta secreting human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells,” in 2015.
As of July 2022, Dr. Park joined the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University as a Clinical Instructor, working with Dr. Steven D. Chang in the fields of Neurosurgical Oncology and CyberKnife SRS. As of July 2024, he has been promoted to Clinical Assistant Professor in the same field.
Yusuke Hori, MD
Stereotactic Radiosurgery (Cyberknife)
Clinical Instructor
Dr. Hori received his MD from Sapporo Medical University, Japan, and during that time he served as a Medical Student Research Fellow in the Department of Pharmacology. He explored the functional role of the SIRT1 gene, a longevity-associated gene, and its association with various conditions such as muscular dystrophy. He also completed a Visiting Student Research Fellowship at the Health Sciences University of Hokkaido and participated in Human Genetics projects focusing on an association between the 27-bp deletion and 538G>A mutation in the ABCC11 Gene.
After graduating from medical school, Dr. Hori completed a neurosurgery residency at National Hospital Organization Okayama Medical Center in Japan. Subsequently, he completed a Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Fellowship and then a Neurosurgical Oncology and Radiosurgery Fellowship at The Cleveland Clinic. He also completed an International Neurosurgery Fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. In 2022, he moved to Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow, and under the supervision of Dr. Anca Pasca, he participated in brain organoid research focusing on hypoxic brain injuries.
Since July 2023, Dr. Hori has been working as a Clinical Instructor (Neurosurgical Oncology and Radiosurgery) in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford under the supervision of Drs. Steven D. Chang and Antonio Meola. His clinical interests include malignant brain and spine tumors in both adult and pediatric patients. His clinical research focuses on the application of minimally invasive treatments such as laser interstitial thermal therapy, focused ultrasound, and radiosurgery to treat various neurosurgical conditions. His current lab research aims to develop an organoid model for radiation-induced brain injuries and a high-throughput screening platform to identify novel therapeutic compounds, for which he received a Clinician Educator Grant from Stanford University Maternal and Child Health Research Institute. Outside of medicine, he enjoys playing music including guitar and drums.
Fred Lam, MD, PhD, FRCSC
Stereotactic Radiosurgery (Cyberknife)
Clinical Instructor
Fred is a Canadian board-certified neurosurgeon with a PhD in neuroscience. He obtained his neurosurgical fellowship training at Harvard Medical School specializing in tumors of the brain and spine. Fred then pursued postdoctoral research in cancer biology, DNA damage, and epigenetics at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT studying the use of nanotechnology and precision medicine approaches for the treatment of brain tumors.
Prior to coming to Stanford, he was a junior attending neurosurgeon at Saint Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, with a clinical and research focus on the neurosurgical treatment of patients with primary and metastatic brain and spine tumors. He is honored to be a Clinical Instructor in the SRS and neurosurgical oncology program at Stanford Neurosurgery and am excited to be learning from the Stanford Neurosurgery faculty.
Featured Alumni
Georgia Hutchinson is a current undergraduate at Harvard and was involved in JClub from 2019-2023. She presented at the forum in 2021 and helped moderate/organize from 2022-2025.
Reflecting on her time, Hutchinson said, “Stanford faculty supported me in high school through the Journal Club, Summer of Neuroscience and the forum. Starting to learn how to read papers at age 15 was a valuable experience and has given me a leg up in both neuroscience classes and research. I've loved taking neuroscience classes in undergrad and getting a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms driving the disorders we learned about in Journal Club. Working on clinical research has been really cool, and I’m still in touch with other students I met through the forum!”
Student Leaders
The 2026-2027 student leaders have been planning for this year's JClub sessions. We are appreciative of their hard work and dedication.
Mahita Chava
JClub participant, Mahita Chava, has been researching multiple sclerosis and temporal lobe epilepsy.
Through analysis of both conditions, she had the opportunity to present and publish two papers. The first relates the relapse and remission dynamics of multiple sclerosis to T cell dynamics. The second relates hormonal imbalances in the HPA Axis to Temporal Lobe Epilepsy and Genetics. Mahita presented both papers at the 2025 Biomedical Engineering Society High School Poster Expo hosted in San Diego on October 11.
Modeling Relapse and Remission in Multiple Sclerosis Through T-Cell Dynamics
A Minimal HPA Axis Model Linking Cortisol Dynamics,Genetics, and Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
"Facing epilepsy as a young girl inspired my passion for neuroscience research. I began by studying multiple sclerosis, exploring how its relapse patterns could be modeled through T cell dynamics. After completing that paper, I wanted to connect different areas within medicine, which led me to my next project on epilepsy. There, I examined the intersections of endocrinology, neuroscience, and genetics. Finishing this paper was deeply fulfilling—it felt meaningful to contribute new insights to a field that has personally shaped my life.” - Mahita
Ekam Kaur
"I learned so much and connected with incredible people. Seeing neuroscience research from top professionals was inspiring and an unforgettable experience, and it only increased my passion for the field." – Ekam Kaur
Nainika Srinivasan
Harris Intern and JClub participant, Nainika, is the co-founder of The Neurokidz. The goal of The Neurokidz is to spark curiosity and deepen understanding of neuroscience among young children.
“As a co-founder of The Neurokidz, I have shaped its mission by developing curriculum modules, leading workshops, and creating engaging activities that simplify complex neuroscience concepts for kids. To promote inclusivity, I also focus on outreach initiatives to bring neuroscience education to diverse communities. Participating in the Harris Internship and JClub has increased my knowledge and enthusiasm for neuroscience. I include interesting advancements in neuroscience in my class material, making lessons more engaging and inspiring for young students.
Working with kids and making a meaningful difference in their lives is the most rewarding part of my involvement with The Neurokidz. There’s nothing more fulfilling than seeing the students’ excitement as they proudly show off their brain hats or neuron models to their parents at the end of class.”
Sofia Gerstein
“As an aspiring neuroscientist, the Neuroscience Forum was an incredible experience to showcase the research project Dr. Llorente and I are working on. I had so much fun learning about all of the new neuroscience discoveries shared at the Forum. My favorite part of the experience was being able to immerse myself in the world of neuroscience and finally meet Dr. Odette Harris in-person, who is an amazing inspiration to me. Seeing the passion of other researchers and neurosurgeons was an unforgettable experience that strengthened my interest in neuroscience.” – Sofia Gerstein
