Resident Physician
University of Michigan
Arushi Tripathy, MD is a third year neurosurgery resident at the University of Michigan. During her undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, she pursued a lab experience studying the role of monocarboxylate transporters in the pathogenesis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis utilizing mouse brain and muscle tissue sectioning and histopathologic examination. She then joined a lab at Johns Hopkins Hospital for four years, conducting studies evaluating the change in oncogenic molecular pathways and epithelial-mesenchymal transformation in response to chemotherapeutic agents in conjunction with hypoxia, specifically in retinoblastoma and uveal melanoma cell lines and mouse xenograft models. In medical school at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, she returned to brain sectioning and staining, correlating demographic and historical data to histopathologic human brain examination to study the development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in veterans. As a resident, she is interested in glioblastoma transcriptomics and clinical outcomes in spine.