About
Hi, I'm Naisha.
I'm a pharmacy student who got interested in medicine for a fairly unglamorous reason: I wanted to know why a drug works, not just that it does. That question turned into a habit of reading primary research for fun, and eventually into this website.
Why pharmacy
I didn't grow up wanting to be a pharmacist. I grew up asking a lot of "but why" questions that most people stopped answering after the second one. Pharmacy turned out to be the field where that habit is actually useful — every medication has a story about how it interacts with a specific receptor, a specific enzyme, a specific version of a disease, and almost none of that story gets explained to the person actually taking the pill.
That gap, between what's known and what's actually communicated, is what pulled me in. I wanted to be on the side of medicine that understands the mechanism well enough to explain it simply.
Where my curiosity keeps landing
Lately that curiosity keeps landing in the same few places: how AI is starting to catch drug interactions earlier than humans do, how platforms like mRNA are being repurposed for diseases far outside what they were originally built for, and how much of public health actually comes down to communication, not just discovery. I write about all of this in the Research Library, mostly because writing something down is the fastest way I've found to figure out if I actually understand it.
What I try to hold onto
Evidence first
I'd rather change my mind because of a good study than defend a position because I said it first.
Simple, not simplified
Making a topic accessible should never mean making it less accurate. If I can't explain something correctly in plain language, I don't understand it well enough yet.
Curiosity, on purpose
Some of this is genuine love of the subject. Some of it is just discipline — showing up to read the paper even on the days I don't feel like it.