Sujoy Phookan, son of Dr. Gautam Phookan and Dr. Ajanta Goswami from Indiana has been recognized at the statewide and national level for his research project conducted during his first year of medical school at Albany Medical College in Albany, NY. His project examines brain activity in rat models of Parkinson's disease with the goal of developing a new therapeutic drug for the disease. His poster presentation won 2nd place at the New York Chapter of the American College of Physicians meeting in Rochester, NY and won Best Overall Basic Science Presentation at the Eastern-Atlantic Student Research Forum in Miami, FL. Following this he was invited to present his poster at the National Medical Student Research Forum in Galveston, TX, where he won Best Neuroscience Poster Presentation and 3rd place overall in the conference. Sujoy's research has also been awarded the competitive Carolyn L. Kuckein AOA Student Research Fellowship for which he will be funded for 8-full time weeks of continued work on his project this summer.