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Benjamin Cocanougher

Benjamin Cocanougher

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2016 PhD Zoology
  • St Catharine's College

Previous Education

Centre College

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From the lab to the patient

Nouran Abdelfattah [2013] is passionate about translating research into drugs that can treat cancer. Her master’s research in translational medicine will build on her undergraduate research on T-cell Acute Lymphobalstic […]

Synaesthesia more common in autism

People with autism are more likely to also have synaesthesia, suggests new research published in the journal Molecular Autism. The research was carried out by Gates Cambridge Alumna Donielle Johnson […]

VC, Chancellor and Provost to address internal symposium

The Vice Chancellor and Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and the Provost of the Gates Cambridge Trust will speak at a Gates Cambridge internal symposium for the first time […]

Secular and domestic

A book about the history of one of Cambridge’s landmark buildings – the Master’s Lodge at St John’s College – has been published by a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Richard Butler’s […]

Singing with many voices

Just as she was preparing to travel to Cambridge to take up her masters in choral studies, Erin Plisco found out that she and her high school choir had scooped […]

In step with romance

Men who are in love adapt their walking pace so they are in step with their partner, according to new research led by a Gates Cambridge Alumna. Cara Wall-Scheffler‘s research, […]

A year of silence on a mountain and other stories

Want to know about medicine in rural India or life as a red-haired Minnesotan in South Korea? Maybe you’d be more interested in sustainable beer brewing in Burkina Faso or […]

Treating countries like businesses

Arbitrators in international investment cases play a huge role in creating law and steering state behaviour, according to research by a Gates Cambridge Scholar which will be presented at an […]

Memory boost

A Gates Cambridge Scholar is presenting research on the potential for boosting memory function through diet at the world’s largest neuroscience conference next week. Brianne Kent will be presenting her […]

Understanding cancerous mutations

New research has uncovered the mechanism underlying the development of cancer in people with mutations in a ‘caretaker’ protein. Gates Cambridge Alumnus Dr Anand Jeyasekharan’s research is published in the […]