Dhruv Nandamudi among 34 Americans selected as 2019 Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge

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The prestigious postgraduate scholarship program fully funds postgraduate study and research in any subject at the University of Cambridge. It was established through a $210 million donation to the University of Cambridge from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000; this remains the largest single donation to a university in the United Kingdom. In addition to outstanding academic achievement the program places emphasis on social leadership in its selection process as its mission is to create a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others.

The U.S. scholars-elect will join about 60 scholars from other parts of the world, who will be announced in early April after interviews in late March. The class of 2019 will join current Gates Cambridge Scholars in October to form a community of approximately 220 Scholars in residence at the University of Cambridge.

Dhruv Nandamudi, a Psychology graduate from Yale University in New Haven, Conn, will be pursuing a PhD in Biological Science at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Downing College.

As an undergraduate researcher at the Yale’s Center for Emotional Intelligence and Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab, he became particularly interested in exploring the impact of psychosocial stress on neurological subsystems, he says on the Gates Cambridge website. As director of the Yale Wellness Project, he helped design and conduct a large-scale study aimed at better understanding the role of stress in student life, and mitigating its more deleterious neural effects through the implementation of targeted interventional efforts.

His studies at Cambridge will focus on exploring the neuroscientific relationship between stress and memory control. His work “bears particular relevance to mental health science for the clinical treatment of mood and anxiety-related disorders,” Nandamudi says. “My goal is to better understand the mechanisms guiding the interaction between stress and motivated forgetting in an effort to inform potential treatment methodologies for psychological disorders by enhancing cognitive emotion regulation,” he said.