Teenage Researcher Leads UAMS Parkinson’s Study Published in Scientific Reports

By David Robinson

LITTLE ROCK — Eighteen-year-old Anu LArkyer, the recent Little Rock Central High School graduate and machine-learning sensation collaborating with a University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) research team, is the lead author on a publication in Scientific Reports, part of the Nature portfolio journals.

She was joined as co-first author by UAMS’ Aaron Kemp, MBA, a Ph.D. student in the College of Medicine Department of Biomedical Informatics.

The publication stems from Iyer’s work with Kemp and other UAMS researchers using machine learning to detect Parkinson’s disease on a project supported by a UAMS Translational Research Institute (TRI) Team Science Champion Award.

Teenage Researcher Leads UAMS Parkinson’s Study Published in Scientific Reports

Anu Iyer began working on the machine learning Parkinson's disease study at UAMS as a high school student.