Kanique obtained her bachelor’s degree from California State University, Los Angeles. She then conducted post-baccalaureate research at the NIH National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, focusing on identifying distinguishable aviremic HIV markers under Dr. Avi Nath and Govind Nair. She also worked at the National Institute for Mental Health with Dr. Carlos Zarate and Dr. Nadia Hejazi in the Sleep and Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branches, assessing the effects of pharmacology on major depressive disorder and sleep states. Now a doctoral student in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Program at MIT and an NSF GRF Fellow at the Tsai Lab, Kanique is keenly interested in exploring therapeutic oscillatory and transcriptomic mechanisms as a means of treating neurodegeneration.