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Swaroshish Goswami
A 19 year old sophomore from Canada, is the UN Youth Ambassador, Canada’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Strategy Magazine’s Social Innovator of the Year, the United Nation’s Outstanding Youth Leadership Laureate, Plan Canada’s Top 20 under 20 awardee and 2016 “Face and Future of Canadian Entrepreneurship” by UPS...
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I am a 19 year old sophomore from Toronto, Canada studying at the University of Toronto. I am an award winning serial tech entrepreneur and innovator, UN Youth Ambassador, Huffington Post contributor, early stage tech investor, LinkedIn campus editor, social media personality and TEDx speaker. I am one of the world’s youngest venture capitalist as a Business Development Associate at JB Fitzgerald Venture Capital. In my role, I have consulted with Fortune 500 companies on promoting investments in the digital media space. I am also the...
read more“Nanostructured Interfaces for Therapeutic Delivery”
Prof. Tejal A. Desai, Chair of the Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences Department,University of California, San Francisco, USA “Nanostructured Interfaces for Therapeutic Delivery” Abstract: Efficient drug delivery remains an important challenge in medicine. Continuous release of therapeutic agents over extended time periods; local delivery to overcome systemic toxicity; penetration through biologic barriers, and increasing patient compliance are some of the unmet needs of present drug delivery technology. This talk will discuss in...
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Dr. Tejal Desai is currently Professor of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also Chair of the UCSF/UC Berkeley Graduate Group in Bioengineering, Director of the UCSF/UC Berkeley Translational Medicine Program (MTM), and a member of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research. Dr.Tejal Desai directs the Laboratory of Therapeutic Micro and Nanotechnology at UCSF. Her research uses micro and nanofabrication techniques to create implantable biohybrid devices...
read moreAneri Pradhan
Aneri Pradhan, is the Founder of ENVenture, a non-profit that promotes sustainable enterprise creation through crowdfunding and builds the capacity of local youth through business development...
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Mukhobeh MosesKhaukha is the Executive Director of Hands of Action Uganda, a not-for-profit registered Community Based Organization working in to improve the lives in Bududa district. This region of Uganda is regularly affected by tragic mud slides, which has plagued the economic development of his community. Moses decided to first improve his community by building a school, in which thousands of children are enrolled. Hands of Action even invented an innovative educational practice for teachers to shout,” gender balance!” when...
read moreDr. Anindita Bhadra
Dr. Bhadra is a behavioural biologist, working with free-ranging (stray) dogs in India. While pet dogs are studied extensively and compared with wolves in order to understand the evolution of the dog-human relationship, free-ranging dogs in India provide the perfect model system for studying them in nature, and building an understanding of the intrinsic nature of dogs. As they have hardly been studied so far, Dr. Bhadra chose the dogs as a model system, shifting completely from her zone of training and comfort, social insects. This gave her...
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KEY INSIGHTS | ORIGINAL RESEARCH From THE RISE AND FALL OF NATIONS | RUCHIR SHARMA The Four D’s The world economy is fighting the friction generated by 4D’s. Deglobalization: international trade is now growing slower than the global economy for the first time in a generation, and cross border money flows have retreated to levels last seen a quarter century ago. Depopulation: since 2005, the working age population of the world has been growing at just 1 percent a year, half the rate of the previous 50 years. Deleveraging: the world has...
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Miss America 2013 Mallory Hagan
Mallory Hytes Hagan is an American actress, model and beauty queen who won Miss America 2013 and Miss New York 2012. She was also Miss New York City 2012, Miss Manhattan 2011, Miss Brooklyn 2010, and a two-time Miss New York first...
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