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At Cambridge I will study the molecular biology of the Trypanosoma brucei, the parasitic agent responsible for African sleeping sickness. My year at Cambridge will provide excellent training in infectious disease research, as well as have a profound influence on the path I ultimately embark on as a physician-scientist.

During my BSc in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, I developed a passion for Category Theory and Mathematics Education. The former presented to me a framework of insight into the mathematical questions I had encountered through my interest in the field, while the latter expressed a means for me to contribute to the upliftment of young, interested students in South Africa. In continuing to my MSc in Mathematics I explored these interests further and, in particular, studied internal categorical structures, while gaining teaching experience at the university. The opportunity to read a PhD at Cambridge supported by a Gates Cambridge Scholarship allows me to further explore my interests in Internal Category Theory, Categorical Logic and Internal Languages and to make meaningful contributions to these fields. I hope to engage with a cohort of educationally interested students to further my growth as a teacher. It is my intension to help grow the Category Theory – and general mathematical – community in my home county as well as help improve the state of mathematics education at its tertiary institutions.

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University of Cape Town Mathematics 2022
University of Cape Town Mathematics 2020
University of Cape Town Maths and Applied Maths 2019

I am excited to do research in the fascinating field of Epigenetics in Maternal health and developmental biology. There can be a million reasons not to try something new....You just need one great reason to begin!

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As an undergraduate studying Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech, I became fascinated with medical imaging during internships and research focused on minimally invasive device design for radiology procedures. In my post-graduate work as a consultant, I sought to create impact through healthcare innovation but realized that subconscious bias in tactical solution design often excludes patients with the greatest need. We witnessed this during the COVID-19 crisis as those unable to access or afford care suffered disproportionately.While innovation is key to society’s well-being and progress, I believe we are also obligated to ensure that it reaches those who need it most. Through my PhD research in radiogenomics, an emerging field that combines medical imaging with genomic data, I seek to develop imaging biomarkers and predictive models for liver cancer. Ultimately, this research aims to improve access to care and reduce the resource burden on health professionals by creating tools that enhance diagnostics, enable remote assessment, and improve precision care for an under-funded yet deadly cancer. My research is supervised by Dr. Evis Sala in the Radiogenomics and Quantitative Imaging Group within the Department of Radiology.

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Georgia Institute of Technology Biomedical Engineering 2018

I am a mathematics student attending Part III of the Mathematical Tripos. My main mathematical interests lie in algebraic geometry and number theory and I wrote a senior thesis on elliptic curves with complex multiplication. At Cambridge, I plan not only to continue my work in these areas, but also to take courses in a variety of other mathematical subjects to acquire a broader mathematical education before beginning graduate work.

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University of Delhi BA Economics 2001

Steve is a postdoctoral researcher in Psychology at New York University in the Social Identity and Morality Lab. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge (Trinity College), where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Previously, he studied Psychology and Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. Steve studies intergroup conflict, the spread of (mis)information, and how these topics interact with digital technologies, such as social media and artificial intelligence.

He has published in journals such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Nature Human Behavior, Science Advances, Psychological Science, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Annual Review of Psychology, Perspectives on Psychological Science, PNAS Nexus, Nature Communications, Current Opinion in Psychology the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and more. His research has been covered by outlets such as the New York Times, BBC, NBC, CBS Sixty Minutes, the Atlantic, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and the Freakonomics podcast.

He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, the AE Foundation, the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding, Google, Cambridge, and NYU. He was recently named an APS “Rising Star,” and his thesis was awarded the Psychology of Technology Dissertation Fellowship and was a finalist for the SESP dissertation award.

Steve is also very interested in science communication, and has written articles for outlets such as the Washington Post, the Guardian, the LA Times, the Boston Globe, and Psychology Today. He also makes science communication TikToks under the name @stevepsychology, and has more than 1 million TikTok followers.

Steve is currently leading an international collaboration testing the causal impact of social media usage around the world. This is a collaboration with hundreds of researchers residing in 76 countries that has has received $1.5 million in grant funding from the National Science Foundation, the Templeton World Charity Foundation, and NYU. You can learn more about this collaboration here: globalsocialmediastudy.com.

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Stanford University

Each moment of our waking lives is wrought through the medium of our conscious awareness. The enigma of how our brains create, capture, and shape our experiences fascinates me. In my cognitive neuroscience research at Stanford University, I studied how aging and early-stage Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology affect our memory abilities. Through these studies, I came to wonder whether or how these processes change our experiences of each moment. Consequently, my research at Cambridge seeks to better understand the neural underpinnings of consciousness as a function of age and AD. Through these inquiries, I hope my research will both shed light on the neural correlates of consciousness themselves and offer approaches for earlier detection of AD. Beyond doing research, I believe in and have worked toward sharing scientific information and discovery widely. I am deeply honored, humbled, and inspired to join the Gates Cambridge community of scholars.

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Stanford University Human Biology 2021

I spent most of my childhood in a small Kenyan town before being awarded the opportunity to pursue my tertiary education at Cambridge University, UK. I then joined Microsoft at the Redmond headquarters and my most recent success has been in the corporate citizenship arena amalgamating Microsoft research efforts with my technical standards work for developing countries. But even though, I have been exposed to great advances in science, I keenly believe that humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how these discoveries are applied to reduce the atrocious disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair. It is, consequently, my fervent hope that the Cambridge MBA will give me a cavernous multifaceted insight into business economics to design business models that can make market forces work better in applying the existing technologies to solve the world’s deepest inequities.

As a student of Economics I have been fascinated by the sheer magnitude of influence this subject has on the world today. Therefore I decided to pursue it further as an affiliate student in the University of Cambridge. With the world becoming a global village, the fate of all the countries is interlinked. Through my studies in Economics I want to enjoy an experience that will help me delve deeper into the nuances of this subject. Currently, while studying for a PhD in Economics, I am working on the fields of monetary policy, credit markets and the implications of the crisis for financial stability.

At Syracuse University, as a dual Biology and Judaic Studies major, I developed a deep-seated curiosity about human biology and disease alongside my study of the humanities. My early exposure to research led me to secure both on-campus and international research opportunities. I conducted pharmacological research with faculty at Upstate Medical University and cancer research at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. I will complete my undergraduate thesis on the role of a protein (erlin2) on intracellular protein degradation of the IP3 receptor. At Cambridge, I will be working with Dr. Paul Lehner to identify novel cellular receptors manipulated by viruses, which teaches us about viral pathogenesis. This work is of great importance because it has the capacity to lead to novel therapeutic approaches by targeting newly identified receptors. The lab uses proteomic approaches alongside genetic screening in human haploid cells. Further, silencing a retrovirus and looking at the viral transport/repressor complex is used to discover functions for previously identified and unidentified genes. In the future, I plan on attending medical school to inform my research as a physician-scientist and become a viral oncologist. Moreover, as a Bukharian woman, and as the first person to attend college from both sides of my family, I look forward to sharing my experiences and supporting the academic and professional goals of young women from traditional, immigrant communities worldwide.

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Syracuse University

Born and raised in Albania, I moved to the UK in 2009 to pursue further education. Not being exactly sure what to study, I decided to play to my mathematical and scientific strengths and read chemical engineering. The degree became increasingly appealing to me because of the breadth of topics it covers, the wide range of applicability of its principles and the variety of transferable skills that it gives to its students. The most exciting thing about the chemical industry is the fact that it is tackling some of the most imminent global challenges. In the light of this, I decided to follow a PhD at Cambridge, which I hope will improve my fundamental understanding and give me credibility in whatever I elect to do in the future. The PhD will be under the supervision of Prof Lynn Gladden. The main project will focus in applying Magnetic Resonance Imaging in novel applications such as catalyst characterization and flow of fluids in porous media. These have direct impact in reducing energy intensity of processes and improving the efficiency of recovery of hydrocarbons from rocks. It will be a mixture of theoretical, experimental and data processing program. My interests within and outside academia are quite broad. I have had placements in commercial, technical and design roles and I am open to any opportunity that may arise.

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University of Cambridge

Experiencing the tragedy of disease, poverty and starvation, both personally and in various countries, has left an indelible passion in me to pursue plant science to make a brighter future for humanity. For my Master’s research, I studied the inheritance of disease resistance and spicy flavor in chile peppers, where I discovered a new gene that inhibits disease resistance, helped sequence the chile pepper genome and broke the world record for "hottest pepper". At Cambridge, I will investigate improving crop productivity by working towards transferring the more efficient C4 photosynthesis into less efficient C3 photosynthetic, yet economically important, crops--notably rice and wheat. Engineering C4 photosynthesis into C3 crops could potentially increase current yields by 50%, while adding greater nitrogen- and water-use efficiency. This would be an incredible solution to global food security and supply! Upon completion of a PhD, I aspire to become a plant breeder.