Bio
Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna is a 5th-year M.D./Ph.D. student in Bioengineering at University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley. Originally from Long Island, she studied Bioengineering at Harvard University. She is passionate about developing diagnostics and health-monitoring tools to promote the health and well-being of individuals in America and abroad. As a Ph.D. candidate in Dr. Deborah Dean’s lab, she studies the role of the ocular microbiome in trachoma, a neglected tropical disease and the leading cause of infectious blindness, particularly in global and underserved populations. Proudly Nigerian-American, Augusta enjoys listening to and dancing to Afrobeats, traveling to learn about and experience new cultures, and trying new cuisines in her free time.