Chinese Gates Scholar featured in Guardian newspaper

  • January 21, 2009

Xiaohan Pan (2005), a Chinese Gates Scholar, is featured in the this week’s Guardian newspaper.

Xiaohan relates her experience of undergraduate education in China, where she was one of the top students at Zheijang University near Shanghai.

At Cambridge, Xiaohan is currently completing her PhD on novel contact lens glucose sensor to achieve real-time glucose monitoring for diabetes management.

Read the Guardian article.

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