SOUMILEE CHAUDHURI 

Soumilee was raised in Kolkata, India and graduated with double degrees in Neuroscience & Biochemistry from Montana State University, Bozeman as an International Merit Scholar. 

In 2021, she continued pursuing biomedical science & research as a Medical Neuroscience PhD student in Indiana University School of Medicine as a Paul & Carole Stark Neurosciences Fellowship for her continued work in Alzheimer's Disease & Related Dementia. 

She works at the intersection of multi-omics and neuroimaging to characterize Alzheimer Disease (AD) therapeutics; she was competitively awarded the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Health Equity Scholar Program (ADNI HESP) fellowship to support her research on understanding lifestyle risk factors in AD that affect multiethnic populations. 

Her interests and experiences range from neurodegenerative diseases, neuroinformatics, to science communication, public health policy and diversifying academia & research spaces.  She is the recent co-founder of IMPACT IN (Initiative for Mobilizing Public health Advocacy, Care, and Translational research for Alzheimer’s Disease in Indiana).

Outside of academia, Soumilee enjoys hiking & outdoor adventures and focuses towards building a safe outdoor environment for BIPOC mid/plus sized women.