Lucía Castelló, a former pupil of this British faculty in Puçol, simply began a PhD programme in Medical Engineering at MIT and Harvard to which solely a small variety of college students are admitted every year.
Solely 5 years have passed by since this 22-year-old from Valencia began her diploma in Biomedicine on the Polytechnic College of Valencia (UPV), occurring to finish a grasp’s diploma on the College of Cambridge. She is now based mostly within the Boston space, pursuing one of the crucial internationally esteemed doctoral programmes obtainable.
Her ardour for nanotechnology utilized to well being sciences has led her to the summit of the educational world, the place there are extra lectures by Nobel prize winners per sq. metre than wherever else on this planet. “Nanotechnology performs an important position within the growth of latest strategies of analysis and remedy which can be minimally invasive and intensely exact. I had the possibility to begin on this multidisciplinary area on the Instituto Universitario de Tecnología Nanofotónica on the UPV, collaborating on a European undertaking in my closing 12 months. Throughout my grasp’s programme, I used to be in a position to witness the large affect of translational analysis–which is firmly established on the College of Cambridge—while taking part in initiatives with a number of biomedical corporations. My grasp’s thesis consisted of an evaluation of the technological and monetary viability of integrating a surgical method within the public well being system (NHS) within the UK”.
Lucía Castelló obtained a spot within the doctoral programme at MIT and Harvard, totally funded by these establishments, along with a scholarship from La Caixa that seeks to advertise the expertise of essentially the most excellent college students in order that they’ll broaden their schooling on the world’s finest universities. “I knew it wouldn’t be straightforward to achieve a spot within the grasp’s programme on the College of Cambridge or the doctoral programme at MIT-Harvard, however I used to be hopeful. The tutorial necessities are very demanding and admission is contingent upon a selective admissions course of and several other rounds of private and technical interviews. All informed, it was an extended and intensive course of that taught me quite a bit and I’m actually happy with the ultimate end result”, she mentioned.
Lucía Castelló, a graduate of Caxton Faculty, will probably be spending the following six years immersed on this programme that mixes medical research at Harvard and engineering at MIT along with lab analysis.
“Medical engineering permits advances within the area of medication via the usage of know-how. Its goal is to enhance well being outcomes and high quality of life for sufferers. I’m significantly within the functions of nanotechnology to develop diagnostic instruments that enable for early detection of illness, in addition to the clever launch of pharmaceutical therapies to optimise therapeutic results”.
Relating to her schooling on the UPV, she highlights the significance of her analysis interval via a collaborative scholarship, in addition to the standard of the theoretical and sensible lessons, all of which contributed to her being named the highest-ranked Biomedical Engineering pupil on the nationwide stage by the Sociedad Española de Excelencia Académica. Of her schooling in school, she mentioned, “Due to the recommendation of my maths academics, I made a decision to mix Engineering with Drugs as a substitute of pursuing solely Drugs. I’m very grateful to have had the chance to additional my research of maths, a topic I’ve at all times cherished, and be capable to apply these ideas to the interdisciplinary area the place I now work. I’m additionally really grateful for the extent of English I gained and the demanding nature of the schooling I acquired. This outlined my work ethic and my dedication to reach attaining the bold targets I set for myself”.
Through the first weeks of her research on the two campuses close to Boston, this biomedical engineer with such a promising skilled future could be very happy. “Though it’s true that it’s a really aggressive environment, all of us right here share the identical goal: to have a optimistic affect on society via our work. I’m positive we’ll achieve success,” she mentioned with a smile.
