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CS Alum Achal Achrol receives prestigious Soros FellowshipAchal Achrol was born in 1980 in Jaipur, India, and moved to the US in 1981 with his family, who live in Vienna, VA. He graduated from George Washington University in 2003, magna cum laude, with a degree in Computer Science, and is currently a medical student at Stanford University.Achrol is an awardee of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans for the year 2006. The fellowship is very competitive, choosing the 30 winners from approximately 800 applicants. It is intended to "provide opportunities for continuing generations of able and accomplished New Americans to achieve leadership in their chosen fields", and the Program was established "in recognition of the contributions New Americans have made to American life and in gratitude for the opportunities the United States has afforded the donors and their family". As a researcher at University of California, San Francisco, Achrol has applied his technical background to problems in medicine. He has to his credit thirteen journal publications and funding awards from both UCSF and Stanford. He plans to continue to apply his technical expertise to problems in medicine, while addressing important social issues in medical research, such as the protection of research subjects and the protection of patient privacy. Acknowledgements: Most of this information obtained from the Soros Fellowship websites linked to above. |
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