Akshata Kapadne
Undergraduate Student
About
Akshata Kapadne is a fourth-year UCLA student majoring in Computational and Systems Biology on the Bioinformatics track with a minor in Film, Television, and Digital Media. She aspires to attend medical school in the future and pursue sports medicine or physiatry. Akshata is passionate about the innovative capabilities possible through the intersection of technology and medicine and is currently working on her Capstone thesis within the field of computational genomics. Through her experience as a sports medicine intern at UCLA Athletics, Akshata has also gained a strong interest in sports medicine and brain health. She joined the BrainSPORT program in 2022, and has been volunteering in the Bickart Lab since then. In her free time, Akshata enjoys running, cooking, and exploring new coffee shops in LA