Nischal Ada

• Provide Narcan and clean needles to those struggling with addiction, and food and clothing to those struggling with homelessness
• Cleaned and bandaged wounds to those suffering acute drug-related wounds

• Assisted students with synthesis, purification, characterization, and identification of organic compounds in-lab
• Assisted Dr. Yearty with monitoring lab safety and graded ~15 student reports for ~6 experiments
• Assisted Dr. Hartgerink with grading ~150 tests throughout the summer term
• Assisted Dr. Yearty with hosting office hours, private sessions, activities, and grading ~200 tests throughout the fall term
• Assisted Dr. O’Leary with grading ~200 tests throughout the spring term

• Relayed messages from nurses to legal guardian of child patient and played games with patient to provide comfort pre-operation
• Helped staff with administrative tasks during the operation, escorted patient out of hospital with family post-operation

• Helped conduct chemistry shows in front of thousands of children across more than 10 K-12 schools in the Greater Houston area
• Equipped teachers with new knowledge and skills to help reignite the excitement about learning and teaching science through attainable and fun chemistry experiments that can be done in a classroom.

• Coauthored a publication pending publishing discussing synthesis of fluorescent amino acids

• Performed total synthesis of a drug designed to combat bone metastasis

• Conducted clinical trials on bereaved spouses and compiled emotion regulation data

• Answered texts from people in crisis and brought them from a moment of stress to a cool calm
• Aided through active listening, collaborative problem solving, and safety planning

• Researched radiation-induced cancer cell foci detection
• Conducted cell culturing, seeding, staining, and fluorescence microscopy in a wet lab, irradiation at the Proton Therapy Center, CNN-based machine learning and imaging analysis in MATLAB
• Presented a poster at MD Anderson Summer Research Fair and Shadowed GI Oncology Chart Rounds