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Adharsh
Kirtan

Biology has patterns. I’m interested in finding them.

PharmD PharmacovigilancePopulation studies

PharmD student · MCOPS, Manipal

Drawn to pharmacy practice, and to what medical data can tell us about how medicines work for real patients, and when they don’t.

Currently working on medical data analysis, pharmacovigilance and population studies.

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About

I tend to follow interesting questions down rabbit holes.

A little about me

  1. Now

    PharmD student at Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

  2. Leaning

    Towards pharmacy practice, and the data behind it: medical data analysis, pharmacovigilance and population studies.

  3. Research

    Medical data analysis: EEG-based seizure detection, statistical modelling and disease-risk prediction.

  4. Lately

    Pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reaction reporting, and population studies of health outcomes.

  5. Creative side

    Head of Writing at Manipal The Talk Network, Design at Hult Prize MAHE and Rotaract MAHE, Joint Editor of the college Editorial Board.

  6. Building

    AI-assisted clinical workflows, and Batore, a small web studio I co-founded.

  7. Off duty

    Snooker, pickleball, table tennis, and the occasional unnecessary deep dive into Wikipedia.

Education

  • Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD)Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences2025–2031
  • Higher Secondary · Biology & Computer SciencePeepal Prodigy School, Coimbatore2023–2025 · CGPA 9.0

Current toolkit

Programming & analysis

PythonRSQLMATLAB

Things I work with

Medical data analysisPharmacovigilancePopulation studiesStatistical modellingRisk predictionSignal processing

Languages

English · Tamil · Telugu

Work

Things I’ve been working on.

Some started as research questions. Some became projects. A few took me somewhere I didn’t expect.

Research & experience

Places I’ve learned along the way.

  1. May – Sep 2026

    Western Ghats Nature Foundation

    Summer Research Intern

    Visitor behaviour and mental-health outcomes in ecotherapy settings.

  2. 2026

    Brain Fog: From COVID-19 to Chemotherapy to SSRIs

    Poster · PharmaQuora 2026

    Cognitive dysfunction across three causes, and the neuroinflammatory and drug-induced mechanisms behind it.

  3. Oct 2024 – May 2025

    EEG-based seizure detection

    Co-author · Springer-indexed, ICCCNet 2024

    Real-time seizure detection from EEG with Approximate Entropy, presented at Manchester Metropolitan University.

  4. Apr – May 2024

    SSN College of Engineering

    Summer Research Intern

    EEG in cognitive load analysis: how neural signals shift during high-demand tasks.

Projects & achievements

Filed by theme.

Other projects, ideas and achievements. Open a folder to see what's inside.

Contact · the last page

Found a rabbit hole worth sharing?

Write to me about medicines, models, essays, or the question you can’t stop thinking about.

Send an email

adharshkirtan5@gmail.com

Manipal, Karnataka Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu

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