Rohit Singla (MD/PhD student; IMP Class of 2025)
Rohit Singla (MD/PhD student; IMP Class of 2025) has been named a 2020 Vanier Scholar (NSERC). He received the scholarship for his proposal titled “Intelligent Renal Ultrasound: Development of Ultrasound-based Measures Using Machine Learning to Prevent Renal Disease Progression.”
“I’ll be exploring how ultrasound can be used to detect a diseased kidney and to quantify micro-structural changes, as well as simplifying ultrasound image acquisition,” Rohit says. “Chronic kidney disease impacts over 10% of the Canadian population, and answering these questions may reduce the overall burden of this disease on Canadians.”
A Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship is valued at $50,000 per year for three years during doctoral studies, and considers three equally weighted selection criteria: academic excellence, research potential, and leadership. Rohit says the scholarship will provide him with academic freedom and the ability to fully focus on research.
Rohit is part of the MD/PhD program at the IMP. Offered jointly by the UBC Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, this seven-year program allows highly qualified students to combine medical school with intensive scientific training. Rohit is completing his PhD studies in biomedical engineering.
You can learn more about Rohit and his experiences in the MD/PhD program here.