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Chief Medical Officer to give Annual Lecture
England’s Chief Medical Officer will give this year’s Gates Cambridge Annual Lecture on the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Professor Dame Sally Davies’s lecture, Antimicrobial resistance: a cause for collaboration, […]
The Stone Age connection
Researchers working on ancient DNA extracted from human remains interred almost 8,000 years ago in a cave in the Russian Far East have found that the genetic make-up of certain modern […]
Alumni to hold migration forum in Budapest
Gates Cambridge Alumni are holding their first Eastern European forum on the topic of migration in Europe in March. The Forum on Migration, to be held at the Central European […]
Composing for a cause
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has co-written and co-produced a song to raise awareness and funds for refugees, which features Grammy Award-winners singer Gregory Porter, rapper Common, and trumpeter Keyon Harrold. […]
International civil servant, global nomad & policy activist
Harum Mukhayer [2016] has spent the last eight years as a specialist in international environmental and natural resources law. She has advised governments in Sudan, South Sudan and Somalia on […]
Opera for children
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has published a children’s book on opera to encourage a new generation to enjoy the genre. José Izquierdo wrote the book, Las Aventuras del Hombre Pajaro. Cinco […]
A child’s best friend
Children get more satisfaction from relationships with their pets than with their brothers or sisters, according to a newly published study led by a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Children also appear […]
Biotech Summit addresses African development
A not-for-profit organisation set up by a Gates Cambridge Scholar is holding its inaugural African Diaspora Biotech Summit in Cambridge in April. Applications for the JR Biotek Foundation Summit opened […]
Human trafficking: what works?
What makes for an effective policy to counter trafficking in human beings? Sharmila Parmanand’s research will examine the current anti-trafficking ecosystem. It’s an area she knows well having worked at […]
Confronting downstream oil theft
A company set up by a Gates Cambridge Scholar and specialising in advising on strategic defence and security matters has released the first-ever major study on global downstream oil theft – a form […]
