Mayukha Dyta

Delaware, OH

Grant Category:	Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Program
Project Title:	Diagnosing Diversity: Differences in Managing and Treating Pluralistic Patient Populations
Field of Study:	Anthropology
Home Institution:	Ohio Wesleyan University, Sankval, Goa
Host Institution:	Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani
Grant Start Month:	December,2024
Duration of Grant:	Six months

Brief Bio:

Mayukha Dyta is a bachelor’s student in the U.S. pursuing degrees in pre-medicine and sociology/anthropology. She is interested in methods of diagnosis and the malleability of biomedicine in the way it is taught in different cultures. She has previously worked in biomedical wet labs and conducted electrophysiology research on cardiomyocyte ion channels and yeast cell integrity. Mayukha has published a groundbreaking paper on the presence of BK channels in exosomes. She has also carried out ethnographic work in Indian medical schools. She is a youth delegate for the UN Program UNITE2030 and is the president of a number of clubs and organizations at the collegiate level whose mission range from promoting women in science to creating communities of like-minded individuals. In her free time, Mayukha likes to read, and enjoys the classics.

In her Fulbright-Nehru program, Mayukha is completing an anthropological ethnographic research project to understand how pluralistic patient populations affect diagnosis and treatment (or continuum of care). In addition, she is focusing on the difference between managing and treating patients in the culturally influenced style of biomedicine to understand the fluidity of the practice. The research is building on work in medical anthropology and sociological medical practices among pluralistic patient populations.