Delivered by the Office for Postdoctoral Affairs (OpDA), the Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowships take outstanding Cambridge postdocs and develop them into motivated, strategic future leaders ready to pursue a range of global questions and problems. In the first year, Fellows spend time in small groups, pursuing a Global Challenge in collaboration with mentors and experts from industry, enterprise, policy, government and academia leading to a tangible output.
GC Connect
Aims and goals
Accelerating progress in addressing Global Challenges by connecting problem solvers with community-scale problems.
- Complement existing CGC and CGE networks of solution seekers.
- Create a purpose-built platform that enables easy access to community-scale problems
- Develop a framework to dissect and articulate gathered problems to address and appeal to diverse communities of experts.
- Connect processed community-scale problems with those who have the interest and capacity to develop solutions.
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Team
GCConnect brings together an interdisciplinary team with different origins united in their passion for social impact and innovation. GCConnect is supported by the Centre for Global Equality (CGE), Cambridge Global Challenges (CGC), the Borysiewicz Biomedical Science Fellowship and the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPDA).
- Dr. Johnny Habchi – Department of Chemistry
- Dr. Christopher Proctor – Department of Engineering
- Dr. Pietro Sormanni – Department of Chemistry
About the Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowship
The Borysiewicz Biomedical Sciences Fellowships have been developed in honour of Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, a pioneer in the biomedical sciences, who when Vice-Chancellor of the University led and shaped the development of key provisions for Cambridge’s postdoc community. The Borysiewicz Fellowships will take outstanding Cambridge postdocs and develop them into motivated, strategic future leaders ready to pursue a range of global questions and problems. The programme will provide a unique mixture of purposeful and outcome-driven engagement opportunities for postdocs both within and outside their area of expertise, which will develop their skills as leaders and lead to a chance to pursue truly independent work on novel ideas.
