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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.
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Fridah Nyakundi
Ph.D. Student in Environment and Resources, admitted Autumn 2021
BioI am a Ph.D. candidate in Environment and Resources at Stanford University’s Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER). My research sits at the intersection of environmental and natural resource economics and land system science, applying remote sensing and economic methods to understand how natural resource use shapes livelihoods and ecosystems in low- and middle-income countries. Currently, my doctoral work focuses on the risks and decision-making strategies in aquaculture systems, with a case study on Nile Tilapia cage farming in Lake Victoria. While aquaculture is the subject of my current research, my broader interests span natural resource management (NRM) economics, agriculture and environmental economics, land system science, and food systems resilience. Before graduate school, I spent five years at the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), supporting the design and execution of large-scale impact assessments and leading the setup of data systems for the Africa research team. I have been a fellow at Environment for Development (EfD) Kenya since 2017, contributing to applied water and resource economics research.
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Michael O'Key
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
BioMichael O'Key is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Education, concentrating in Race, Inequality, and Language (RILE) and Social Sciences, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Policy Studies (SHIPS), as well as second-year law student and Public Interest Law Fellow at University of California Los Angeles School of Law. His research examines the nexus between school access and student assignment policies, school segregation, and juvenile delinquency.
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Marcus Oehlrich, PhD
Masters Student in Biomedical Data Science, admitted Autumn 2025
BioI am a Professor of Finance, Accounting, and Taxation at accadis University of Applied Sciences in Bad Homburg, Germany, and I advise on startups, business valuation, and corporate finance. My consulting projects range from small startups in biotechnology and M&A transactions in the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors to the preparation of the business plan for the IPO of an international music and movie production group.
During my business studies, I became interested in law and medicine (especially cancer research), which is why I continued my education in these fields (including a Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Medicine, a Certificate in Pharmaceutical Law, and an MPH at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health). Subsequently, I have started the M.S. in Biomedical Data Science at the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University School of Medicine.
I also had the privilege of serving as the CEO of the Institute for German, European, and International Medical Law, Health Law, and Bioethics of the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim (IMGB) from 2005 to 2011. At accadis University of Applied Sciences, I am Head of the Health Care Management Research Group and responsible for the Master of Arts in International Health Care Management. From 2010 to 2020, I served as the Honorary Consul of the Republic of San Marino in Frankfurt, Germany.
Most of my publications (12 books and more than 70 articles) are related to business topics. However, I also authored three books on cancer "Internetkompass Krebs [Internet compass cancer]" (Springer 2001), "Recombinant humanized monoclonal antibody Trastuzumab for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer with tumors overexpressing the HER2/neu proto-oncogene: A systematic review" (dissertation.de 2003) and "Krebs vorbeugen und bekämpfen [Preventing and combating cancer: All about prevention, early detection, therapy]" (Reader's Digest 2012). The latter was translated into Polish, Czech, Croatian, Slovenian, and Hungarian.
