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21Jul

Deepika Kurup

July 21, 2022 ally Speakers
Deepika Kurup

Deepika Kurup

Grand Prize Winner, 2012 Discovery Education 3M Top Young Scientist Challenge
CEO, Catalyst for World Water

Deepika Kurup, a current student at Harvard University, has been passionate about solving the global water crisis since she was in middle school. Deepika won the grand prize in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. She was also named one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30”, was the National Geographic Explorer Award Winner in the Google Science Fair, and presented at the White House Science Fair twice. Currently, she is CEO of Catalyst for World Water, a social enterprise aimed at bringing the water purification technology she has developed to those affected by the global water crisis. Deepika has presented at national and international conferences, TEDx events, TEDWomen, and the United Nations.

Thomas H. Marshburn, M.D.

Thomas H. Marshburn, M.D.Emergency Room Physician, NASA Astronaut, and AquanautDr. Marshburn was selected by NASA in 2004. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Davidson College, North Carolina; a Masters in Engineering Physics from the University of Virginia; a Doctorate of Medicine from Wake Forest University; and a Masters in Medical Science from the University of Texas Medical Branch. The North Carolina native is a veteran of two spaceflights, STS-127 and Expedition 34/35.Before […]

Sameer Nagda, M.D., M.B.A.

Sameer Nagda, M.D., M.B.A.2021 and 2016, United States Olympic Women’s Soccer Team – Team Physician2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion, Team USA – Team PhysicianFellowship Trained Sports Medicine Surgeon – Knee, Shoulder, ElbowDr. Sameer Nagda is a Sports Medicine and shoulder specialist at the Anderson Clinic, and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine. He evaluates and surgically treats problems of the knee, shoulder, and elbow. He has particular […]

Richard Sacra, M.D.

Richard Sacra, M.D.Humanitarian Physician and Ebola SurvivorDr. Sacra has served as a medical missionary in Liberia, West Africa, since 1995. His many contributions include caring for patients; training nurses, medical students and interns; leadership development; and helping to increase the hospital’s response to HIV and AIDS, including starting a counselling program for patients living with the virus. He is also helping to develop a Christian Family Practice Residency training program for Liberian doctors. Despite his […]

Pardis Sabeti, M.D., Ph.D.

Pardis Sabeti, M.D., Ph.D.Associate Professor, Harvard School of Public Health InstituteMember of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MITDr. Sabeti is a computational geneticist who has created some of the most widely used algorithms to mine genomes for instances of human adaptation and created powerful molecular tools to clarify their biology. In 2014, she was named a TIME magazine “Person of the Year” as an Ebola fighter and in 2015 was one of TIME’s 100 […]

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21Jul

Eric Chen

July 21, 2022 ally Speakers
Deepika Kurup

Eric Chen

First Place, 2014 Intel Science Talent Search
Grand Prize Winner, 2013 Google Science Fair
Grand Prize Winner, 2013 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology

At 17-years-old, Eric Chen won all three major science prizes – Intel, Google, and Siemens – for his research on new drugs designed to fight dangerous strains of the influenza virus. The emergence of new highly lethal influenza viruses such as H5N1 and H7N9 poses a grave threat to the world. Eric’s project aimed to discover novel influenza endonuclease inhibitors as leads for a new type of anti-flu medicine, effective against all influenza viruses including pandemic strains. By combining computer modeling and biological studies, he identified a number of novel, potent endonuclease inhibitors. He also performed comprehensive structural analysis, laying the groundwork for further design and optimization of the anti-flu drug candidates.

Eric is currently studying at Harvard University.

Richard Sacra, M.D.

Richard Sacra, M.D.Humanitarian Physician and Ebola SurvivorDr. Sacra has served…

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21Jul

Brittany Wenger

July 21, 2022 ally Speakers
Deepika Kurup

Brittany Wenger

Grand Prize Winner, 2012 Google Science Fair

As a high-school senior Brittany Wenger was well on her way to making the diagnosis of breast cancer less painful and more accurate. Brittany began studying neural networks when she was in the seventh grade. She won the grand prize in the 2012 Google Science Fair for her project, “Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer.” The resulting Cloud4Cancer service aggregates data from biopsies done with the fine-needle aspiration process, instead of the traditional and more painful surgical option. The goal of Wenger’s network is to ensure that fine-needle aspiration biopsies are as accurate as traditional biopsies, which would allow more women to be diagnosed and treated early.

Richard Sacra, M.D.

Richard Sacra, M.D.Humanitarian Physician and Ebola SurvivorDr. Sacra has served…

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20Jul

Shree Bose

July 20, 2022 ally Speakers
Deepika Kurup

Shree Bose

Grand Prize Winner, 2011 Google Science Fair
Co-Founder, Piper

As an 18-year-old Shree Bose triumphed over 10,000 other competitors to become the grand prize winner of the first-ever Google Science Fair in 2011. For her winning research, Shree looked at the chemotherapy drug, cisplatin, that is commonly taken by women with ovarian cancer. The problem is that the cancer cells tend to grow resistant to cisplatin over time and Shree discovered a way to counteract that thus opening new avenues for research.

Shree is a graduate of Harvard University and is now enrolled in the M.D./ Ph.D. program at Duke University.

Richard Sacra, M.D.

Richard Sacra, M.D.Humanitarian Physician and Ebola SurvivorDr. Sacra has served…

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20Jul

Utkarsh Tandon

July 20, 2022 ally Speakers
Deepika Kurup

Utkarsh Tandon

2017 Young Innovators to Watch Award, Consumer Electronics Show
2016 International BioGENEius Challenge Winner

Utkarsh Tandon is an aspiring computational biologist and machine learning researcher at Stanford University. After volunteering at a local Parkinson’s institute during the summer following 9th grade, Mr. Tandon founded OneRing, a medical device company that has created an intelligent monitoring ring to better track Parkinson’s motor symptoms. Throughout high school, he spent countless hours learning and applying state-of-the-art algorithms to model some of the most complex diseases. His work on identifying blood pressure signatures in retinal images of early-onset diabetic retinopathy patients won him the 2016 International BioGENEius Challenge.

Richard Sacra, M.D.

Richard Sacra, M.D.Humanitarian Physician and Ebola SurvivorDr. Sacra has served…

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20Jul

Anvita Gupta

July 20, 2022 ally Speakers
Deepika Kurup

Anvita Gupta

2019 Johnson & Johnson Champions of Science Award Winner
2015 International BioGENEius Challenge Grand Prize Winner

Anvita Gupta is a scientist and entrepreneur who uses artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle problems in biotechnology and find treatments for life-threatening diseases like cancer. Ms. Gupta graduated from Stanford University in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in computer science. In 2015, Ms. Gupta presented her research on AI for drug discovery to President Obama at the White House, where she was invited to join the president’s precision medicine initiative. Her research has been recognized by the Regeneron Science Talent Search, Siemens, and the International BioGENEius Challenge. She is passionate about inspiring women in STEM and in 2014 founded LITAS for Girls, an international nonprofit that was recognized globally in the Nature Innovating Science awards.

Richard Sacra, M.D.

Richard Sacra, M.D.Humanitarian Physician and Ebola SurvivorDr. Sacra has served…

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20Jul

Sajeev Kohli

July 20, 2022 ally Speakers
Deepika Kurup

Sajeev Kohli

2018 Grand Prize in Global Healthcare at the International BioGENEius Challenge

Sajeev Kohli is a senior at Harvard University from Waterloo, Ontario. He has been involved with university laboratory research since he was 13 years old and has won regional, national, and international awards for his work focusing on the implementation of a new nanoparticle- based drug carrier development pipeline for cancer treatment. He was invited to Parliament Hill in Ottawa by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to showcase his research in person to the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, and the Minister of Science, Kirsty Duncan.

Richard Sacra, M.D.

Richard Sacra, M.D.Humanitarian Physician and Ebola SurvivorDr. Sacra has served…

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20Jul

Erin Smith

July 20, 2022 ally Speakers
Deepika Kurup

Erin Smith

2019 Forbes 30 Under 30
2018 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Winner

Erin Smith learned early on to channel her endless curiosity into research. Her past projects have ranged from developing a clean oil-sand extraction method to investigating neuronal remodeling at the Weizmann Institute to determining visual attention strategies via eye tracking at Harvard Medical School. Most recently, she developed FacePrint, a tool to detect and monitor Parkinson’s disease using video technology and early-stage facial expression indicators. Ms. Smith is currently a freshman at Stanford University and was a Thiel Fellow before starting college. Her goal in life is to build the future of neurological and mental healthcare.

Richard Sacra, M.D.

Richard Sacra, M.D.Humanitarian Physician and Ebola SurvivorDr. Sacra has served…

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20Jul

Krithik Ramesh

July 20, 2022 ally Speakers
Deepika Kurup

Krithik Ramesh

2019 Gordon E. Moore Award Winner, International Science and Engineering Fair

Krithik Ramesh developed a real-time navigation system for spinal reconstruction surgery to guide surgeons using augmented reality and machine learning. He was named an “Innovator to Watch” by Smithsonian Magazine in 2020, Encyclopedia Britannica’s 20 under 40 Change Makers in Medicine, and was the Intel ISEF Gordon E. Moore recipient in 2019. Currently, he is working on developing a fetal cardiac diagnostics platform to better diagnose congenital heart disease in utero, and is researching to understand the learning gap between AI and humans.

His medical projects include working on a team that is developing a low-volume blood diagnostics system. Mr. Ramesh has also conducted research at Boeing looking at turbulence modeling of wing structures. He also enjoys applying his love for engineering in philanthropic ways: He started a nonprofit organization called the Empowering Rural India Foundation that provides sustainable energy solutions to impoverished schools. His most recent project was providing a school in rural India with solar panels to provide clean and reliable energy.

Richard Sacra, M.D.

Richard Sacra, M.D.Humanitarian Physician and Ebola SurvivorDr. Sacra has served…

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20Jul

Gitanjali Rao

July 20, 2022 ally Speakers
Deepika Kurup

Gitanjali Rao

2020 TIME Top Young Innovator
2019 Forbes 30 Under 30
2018 EPA Presidential Award
2017 Discovery 3M Young Scientist Challenge Winnerker Award for Basic Medical Research

When 7th grader Gitanjali Rao heard about the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, she was inspired to help and dove right into research. She designed a compact device called “Tethys” to detect lead in drinking water with the aid of a mobile app. In 2017, she was named “America’s Top Young Scientist” and was awarded the $25,000 top prize from Discovery at the 3M Young Scientist Challenge. She was named in the Forbes 2019 “30 Under 30” list of breakthrough scientists, received the TCS Ignite Innovation Student Challenge Top “Health” Pillar Prize for a solution to diagnose prescription opioid addiction at an early stage, and was awarded a grant by the National Science Teaching Association to implement an anti-cyberbullying solution. In addition, she is a subject of the Marvel Hero Series on Disney+ that highlights young leaders who make a difference in our communities. Ms. Rao was a Delegate to the 2019 Congress of Future Medical Leaders.

Richard Sacra, M.D.

Richard Sacra, M.D.Humanitarian Physician and Ebola SurvivorDr. Sacra has served…

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