Three Malaysian medical students heading to Harvard
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- 05 Sep 2022
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FIONA Ho Jing Min was burning the midnight oil when an email appeared in her inbox.
It wasn’t just any email – the correspondence had come from Harvard University, alerting the 22-year-old to the news that she had been selected to participate in high-impact research at Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the United States.
“I feel so honoured to be selected and given the chance to engage with the research community at Harvard,” she told StarEdu.
Joining Ho on her one-year research journey, which will begin on Sept 15, are Clarice Siow Jing Rou and Ngu Hui Ling, both 21.
The trio, who are Doctor of Medicine (MD) programme students at UCSI University, have been presented with the opportunity as part of the varsity’s Star Trek programme – an initiative that sees the world’s best universities selecting UCSI students for high-impact research.
They are among 13 participants from the varsity who have been offered the Harvard opportunity since 2014.
The trio will be focusing their research on aldosterone signalling in which they will study factors that lead to aldosterone changes and its impact on the human body.
For the uninitiated, aldosterone is a steroid hormone secreted by adrenal glands. Its primary role is to regulate salt and water in the body, thus influencing blood pressure. Read More...
