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Hoang Minh Hieu Nguyen
MD Student, expected graduation Spring 2030
BioHoang Minh Hieu Nguyen, from Di Linh, Vietnam, is pursuing an MD at Stanford School of Medicine. They earned a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Middlebury College and a master of philosophy in clinical neurosciences from the University of Cambridge. Hieu aspires to combine science, the arts, and entrepreneurship to improve healthcare quality and access for global populations burdened by chronic disease. Hieu has contributed to advancing our understanding of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases through research at Middlebury College, Rockefeller University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, University of Cambridge, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. As a Social Entrepreneurship Fellow at Middlebury, they collaborated with the Kenyan Ministry of Health and the World Telehealth Initiative to establish Kenya’s first telemedicine system. This program provides lifesaving services, including dialysis, to Longisa, where such services were once unreachable.
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Peter Nonso Nwokoye
MD Student with Scholarly Concentration in Bioengineering, expected graduation Spring 2027
BioPeter Nonso Nwokoye was born and raised in Nigeria and graduated summa cum laude with dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemistry and Biology from Barry University. During his undergraduate studies, he worked on the synthesis of selective muscarinic receptor agonists and antagonists. In 2021, he was awarded the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship to study at King's College, University of Cambridge. There, under the mentorship of Professor Anthony Davenport, he researched the expression and signaling of the apelin receptor and its endogenous agonists, Elabela and Apelin, in glioblastoma stem cells. This experience sparked his interest in developing novel methods to deorphanize orphan Class A GPCRs. After several months of intensive computational research, Peter developed a complex, multi-layered bioinformatic tool that he has used to identify likely endogenous ligands of orphan GPCRs, focusing on peptide ligands found in annotated uncharacterized open reading frames in the human genome. In his free time, he enjoys soccer, running, meditating, and teaching. Peter is excited about pursuing a career as a physician-scientist.
