When you think about why come to Cambridge to pursue research the most important thing that comes to mind is the legacy of science innovation and discovery that Cambridge has and, more importantly, it constantly strives to make better.
Akhila Denduluri
Since he left Cambridge University in 2008, Shane Woods has replayed in his mind a particular speech by former Gates Cambridge Provost Gordon Johnson. It was about leadership and the importance of taking your experience back to your country on graduation and making a contribution. Shane [2004] had long been looking for a role which […]
Amelia Amemate [2020] has spent much of her life striving to challenge gender norms. Like many women in Ghana and elsewhere, she was expected to get married and focus on the home; at university, she faced sexism and hostility when she campaigned for women’s rights; and in the workplace, she was told her Afro hair […]
Gene therapy has been used to regenerate damaged nerve fibres in the eye, in a discovery that could aid the development of new treatments for glaucoma, one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide. Gates Cambridge Scholar Dr Veselina Petrova [2015] is first author of Protrudin functions from the endoplasmic reticulum to support axon regeneration […]
Aditi Mukherji’s PhD on groundwater access marked the beginning of a distinguished career which has seen her win an international prize for her work on eliminating global hunger and poverty, change water policy in West Bengal and be appointed as an author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s forthcoming report for global policymakers. Aditi’s […]
