Arabella Young PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in Bluestone lab, was recently named a UC President's Lindau Nobel Meeting Fellow for 2021—along with four other esteemed peers from UCSF, out of thirty students across all ten UC Campuses—who were nominated based on demonstrated excellence and engagement in their field of research, enthusiastic support from advisers and mentors, and evidence of their commitment to interdisciplinary scientific work. They were selected by Lindau and an advisory group appointed by the UC President from a UC system-wide pool of nominees, and will join other UC learners plus hundreds of young scientists from all over the world participating in this year's meeting.
“These highly accomplished and diverse fellows to the Lindau meetings serve as UC ambassadors to the global scientific community,” said President Michael V. Drake, M.D. “They have been given a rare opportunity to directly engage not only with Nobel laureates, but with global peers equally passionate about scientific discovery. I anticipate that we, and the world, will benefit from the connections made and ideas sparked at this gathering of great minds.”
Begun seven decades ago, the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting brings together 600 university students and postdoctoral fellows from around the world who spend one week absorbing lectures by Nobel Laureates and interacting with them in smaller groups to discuss their own research. The meeting will concentrate on the fields of Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary research.
"It's an honor to represent UCSF at this unique forum," said Arabella Young. "I am particularly excited to learn from and engage with the Nobel Laureates from an array of disciplines and to grow my collaborative network through interactions with other fellows."