Our Team
Our Team is composed of High Schoolers around the United States and international countries in a fully remote setting advised by Dr. Harman Brah
About Dr. Harman Brah
Dr. Harman Brah, a Bay Area native, has been a part of ASDRP since its inception in 2018. In the past, he has served as a Board Member at ASDRP. He holds a Bachelor's in Biochemistry from Loyola Marymount University, graduating summa cum laude and as a Phi Beta Kappa member. During his time at LMU, Harman focused on synthesizing compounds to stabilize G-Quadruplexes and employed computational methods to study these interactions. At UC San Francisco, he dedicated three years to research on dopamine metabolism and Nurr1 in Parkinson's Disease. His research also included work on ML-355, a 12-lipoxygenase inhibitor now in Phase II trials for Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia. At UC San Diego School of Medicine, he performed basic science research on Class A GPCRs using pharmacologic assays and later delved into clinical research on psychotic disorders. In his free time, Harman likes to play chess and exercise.
Education:
Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, LMU
Doctor of Medicine, UCSD
Residency (Psychiatry), UCLA/VA
Dr. Harman Brah Publications
Clinical Genetic Testing in Schizophrenia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Tsai, Wan-Chen; Aleem, Ansari M.; Tena, Jennyfer; Rivera-Velazquez, Mirella; Brah, Harman Singh; Tripathi, Sarvind; D’silva, Melinee; Nadler, Jerry L.; Kalyanaraman, Chakrapani; Jacobson, Matthew P.; Holman, Theodore. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2021.116347
Docking and mutagenesis studies lead to improved inhibitor development of ML355 for human platelet 12-lipoxygenase
Kholodar, Svetlana A.; Lang, Geoffrey; Cortopassi, Wilian A.; Iizuka, Yoshie; Brah, Harman S.; Jacobson, Matthew P.; England, Pamela M. ACS Chemical Biology 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acschembio.1c00326
Analogs of the Dopamine Metabolite 5,6-Dihydroxyindole Bind Directly to and Activate the Nuclear Receptor Nurr1
Brah, Harman Singh; Sran, Nimrat; Sanghani, Sanjana; Valmadrid, Luke; Gandarilla, Isabel; Fakhouri, Savannah; Longmire, Emma; Heskett, Karen M.; Kendall, Kimberley Marie; Raznahan, Armin; Baribeau, Danielle; Fan, Chun Chieh; Besterman, Aaron D. Biological Psychiatry 2026. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2025.09.010
The problem of atypicality in LLM-powered psychiatry
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Garcia, Bosco; Chua, Eugene Y. S.; Brah, Harman Singh. Journal of Medical Ethics 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2025-110972