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Scholar to work on study of COVID-19 in children
John Clark is working on a study on the impact of COVID-19 on children.
Alumni respond to COVID-19
Gates Cambridge Alumni have been mobilising to address some of the many issues thrown up by COVID-19.
Innovation in RNA research
Ananth Kumar has won a competitive international fellowship to study the mechanistic basis of IncRNA function.
Learning lessons from a global natural experiment
Blake Thomson’s new paper highlights how comprehensive collection of data related to the COVID-19 pandemic could provide important information for global health.
App allows comparisons in rate of spread of COVID-19
Dr Pradipta Biswas’ team in India has created an app that shows the rate of spread of COVID-19 in different regions.
Gates Cambridge announces Class of 2020
Seventy-seven new scholars – citizens of 30 different countries – have been awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
Scholar wins prestigious interdisciplinary fellowship
Gabriella Heller is named one of 22 new Schmidt Science Fellows.
Speeding up the medical response to COVID-19
A new start-up co-founded by a Gates Cambridge Scholar aims to speed up trials for treatments, vaccines and tests for COVID-19.
Tackling period poverty and fast fashion waste
Jennifer [2017] is the founder of Emporsand, an enterprise that aims to empower women through sanitation. Its first product, a sanitary pad made with the remnants of fast fashion, taps not only into concerns about waste and the environment, but also into period poverty – two of the biggest issues the world is facing today.
Call for global partnerships to address brain injury in less wealthy countries
Nearly 75% of published neurosurgical trials are led by the world’s richest countries, with only 8%, excluding China, being led by lower income countries, according to a new study, which highlights how healthcare […]
