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I graduated as a veterinarian from Tribhuvan University in Nepal (2015) and have been since working in the field of zoonotic diseases and One Health. Although a veterinarian, I chose epidemiology and public health rather than being a hospital clinician treating individual patients because through this approach I believe I can make a bigger impact on the population of both humans and animals. I've worked with various infectious diseases throughout my brief career, but the disease which I am obsessed with is Rabies. I have seen many lives lost due to it and it's a shame that although there are perfect prevention methods available, it still plagues the communities. I am currently running a Rabies control program (0.30 project) in Nepal through my organisation Center for One Health Research & Promotion (COHRP) which involves mass dog rabies vaccination, community awareness, and KAP surveys. I recently (2019-20) completed my MPhil in Veterinary Science from Cambridge where my project dealt with animal rabies and free-roaming dog population situation in Nepal.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge MPhil in Veteirnary Science 2020
TUAT Veterinary moleculardiagnostic 2018
Tribhuvan University B.V.Sc. and A.H. 2015

I hail from Queensland, Australia - the land of sunshine, surfing, koalas, possums, kangaroos and the great barrier reef. Having trained as a doctor in Australia, I am passionate about indigenous health and public health issues in Australia. I love combining travelling with medical humanitarian work and have worked extensively in India, Africa, Indonesia, and South East Asia. I would like to combine my clinical work with a background in public health in order to establish sustainable health programs both within Australia and overseas in the future. I want this year in Cambridge to be a year of inspirations - by both my brilliant peers and Cambridge itself.

Charles Chang is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Boston University (BU). Prior to joining the faculty at BU, he held faculty appointments at the University of Maryland, Rice University, and SOAS, University of London. His first degree was a joint A.B./A.M. in Linguistics at Harvard, after which he taught English in South Korea as a Fulbright Fellow. He completed graduate work in English and Applied Linguistics at Cambridge and then earned his Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley with a dissertation examining effects of second-language learning on native-language speech production. His research investigates topics related to language acquisition and linguistic theory, especially in regard to phonetics and phonology (the sounds of language and the systems into which they are organized) and bilingualism.

Previous Education

University of California (Berkeley) M.A. Linguistics 2005
Harvard University A.M. Linguistics 2003

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I recently graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in Biology. I am interested in the interplay between hosts and pathogens during the course of infections, as well as in the use of biologics, such as vaccines, in the prevention and treatment of disease. At Cambridge, I will continue studying these topics by researching host entry by gamma-herpesviruses. By looking at the mechanisms used by the viruses to initially attach to and enter the host, my research may be useful in the development of a vaccine against gamma-herpesviruses in the future.

Born to a Cuban-American family in Miami, Florida, I was raised in a community shaped by the events of the Cold War, and grew up listening to Space Age stories of revolution, geopolitical conflict, and international relations. This, in combination with my childhood love of astronomy and science fiction, inspired me to pursue a career in researching space history. After graduating with a double major in Art History and Critical Media & Cultural Studies and a double minor in English Literature and Sexuality, Women’s, & Gender Studies from Rollins College, I earned a Master of Science degree in History of Science, Medicine, & Technology at the University of Oxford. At Oxford, I explored the challenges of international scientific collaboration during the Cold War. This deepened my curiosity regarding international partnership in space, so upon completing my MSc, I interned at NASA and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, where I learned more about international space relations, both then and now. When it comes to human endeavors in space, the Space Race tends to dominate popular memory. The reality, however, is that space plays a larger part in our lives now than ever before, due to technologies such as communications satellites and GPS, and the role of space in national defense. I hope to use the knowledge and skills I gain during my time at Cambridge to positively contribute to humanity’s continued expansion into space, by promoting space policy informed by history.

Previous Education

Rollins College
Oxford University

As an undergraduate Biomedical Engineering student at the University of Delaware, I developed a strong interest in biomedical technologies through a combination of research experiences and self-started software development projects. I have always had a passion for computer related technologies, and am looking for ways in which to apply this knowledge towards expanding the capabilities of modern healthcare. As a future medical student, studying Bioscience Enterprise at Cambridge will allow me to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges that must be overcome to bring modern research advances into healthcare practice. I am proud to be joining the global Gates Cambridge community, and am looking forward to working with other talented scholars to improve the lives of individuals across the planet.

Previous Education

University of Delaware

I grew up in Pune, a city reputed for its environmental conscience. As an undergraduate student I often volunteered time at an environmental education camp for children where I had the opportunity to interact with experts in diverse fields ranging from botany to anthropology. These interactions left me eager to learn more about the linkages among natural resources, livelihoods and development. Consequently, I moved on to study forestry management and later worked in India where I had the opportunity to observe first-hand, the gaps between grassroots reality and environmental policy decisions. In an effort to enhance my understanding of environment-development issues, I joined the MPhil in Environment, Society and Development at Cambridge.Having completed the course in 2008, I continued onto a PhD. My research is looking at federalism and forest policy making in India. I also teach a module on international development at the University’s Institute of Continuing Education.

Among the genes encoded by HIV, Nef has been shown to be a primary determinant of viral pathogenicity. Patients infected with an attenuated strain of HIV, lacking a functional Nef, have displayed markedly slower progression towards AIDS. While at Cambridge, I intend to explore the role of Nef in HIV pathogenesis using an array of biochemical, cell biological, and genomic approaches. Hopefully, the findings of these studies will contribute to our understanding of HIV.

I was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka during the peak of the war. My parents had lost their house to aerial bombing two years before I was born and three weeks after their wedding. After I was born, we were displaced five times. Between 2001 and 2005, I studied in New Delhi where my mother went to do a PhD and hence missed most part of the peaceful time when a ceasefire was held. The fighting started again in 2005 and continued until 2009. In 2009, transport between Jaffna and Colombo, the capital city, became possible. I used this opportunity to sit for the London AL examinations and was fortunate to win a Reach Oxford scholarship.At Oxford I was able to learn about research in different areas of Physics by participating in small research projects supervised by my tutors. In particular, I became interested in computational biophysics and I am currently working on a project on the molecular dynamics of proteins for my undergraduate degree. At Cambridge, I will be using the same techniques to study the mechanisms of activation and silencing of genes in DNA.

Previous Education

University of Oxford

With the help of the Gates Cambridge Trust, I am pursuing a PhD in the Department of Pharmacology. My work is to investigate into an ion channel called Hyperpolarization-activated Cyclic Nucleotide-modulated (HCN) ion channels. Our lab has shown that HCN channel subtype 2 plays a central role in both inflammatory and neuropathic pain. And I am currently working on the molecular mechanism of how this channel is modulated in the hope of finding some chemicals which target on this channel and may have potential therapeutic benefits for those patients who suffer from pain.

Rongjun is Professor of Biomaterials Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. His research focuses on the development of biomaterials for applications including targeted drug delivery, cancer theranostics, cell and gene therapy, heat-stable vaccine formulation, and thrombolytic therapy.

Rongjun did his PhD (2003-2007), funded by Gates Cambridge Scholarship and Overseas Research Studentship, and his postdoctoral work (2006-2009) at the University of Cambridge, both in the lab of Professor Nigel Slater FREng in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He started his tenure-track academic position as Group Leader and BHRC Senior Translational Research Fellow at the University of Leeds in October 2009. He moved to Imperial College London as Lecturer in May 2013 and was then promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2016, Reader in Biomaterials Engineering in 2019 and Professor of Biomaterials Engineering in 2022.

I was first introduced to the subject of Statistics during my undergraduate doing BSc in Statistics at University College London. I received thorough training in Statistics at UCL, from the theoretical side of measure theory to various applied areas, such as extreme values analysis and geostatistics. Subsequently, I went to Oxford for an MSc also in Statistics. A summer internship at the Biostatistics Unit at Cambridge introduced me to the area of biostatistics and in particular, I met my supervisor who works in the area of design of clinical trials. I decided to continue for a PhD in this area, seeking to achieve treatment individualisation in early phase clinical trials. This is important because not only it will recommend treatment adapted to different personal characteristics, but better early phase designs will also increase the acceptance rate of the treatment in later phase trials. I sincerely hope that my research will help improve the experience of patients, and it is my great pleasure to receive the Gates Cambridge Scholarship which also aims to improve the life quality of others.

Previous Education

University of Oxford Statistical Science 2022
University College London Statistics 2021

I am from Taiwan, a country full of friendly people and warm welcome. My concern about other people's lives lead me to study in social science (from politics, social works to sociology). Volunteer experience in different kinds of organisations and positions is a big part of my life stories and has opened up different doors for me to explore the global world. For my PhD, I will focus on intergenerational relationship, especially on employed women's roles as the main care giver in the family. As a person with such a strong familial orientation, I plan to go back to Taiwan after my study and use my knowledge and ability to contribute to the land and people that have nurtured me so much.

I worked in Prof. David Klenerman's lab where I used single-molecule fluorescence techniques to study aggregation of proteins involved in neurodegenerative diseases. Currently I'm doing a MD-PhD at Harvard in preparation for a career as a physician-scientist.

I grew up in Xuzhou, a melting pot of cultures in eastern China with an industrial past. Whilst studying Natural Sciences at Cambridge, I was confronted with some of the ways science and medicine have been and continue to be entangled in structures of oppression. I realised that, to build a sustainable and just future through evidence-informed policies, science must confront its colonial legacies. My PhD aims to radically reorientate received accounts of scientific inquiry in the early modern Pacific. Building upon my interest and experience in disentangling cross-cultural production and interpretation of visual and material culture, I use maps to show that early modern Europeans did not have a monopoly on geographical representation, intellectual exchange, or entrepreneurial mobility. This project is part of my development of a methodology that allows the recovery of non-European agency and heterogeneity otherwise occluded by imperial rhetoric in textual archives. Beside my academic work, I am also interested in equity and justice work for gender equality and indigenous rights. I am grateful to join the Gates Cambridge programme and its international and interdisciplinary scholarly community.

Previous Education

University of Cambridge Hist. & Phil. of Sci. & Med. 2023
University of Cambridge Natural Sciences 2022