Manisha Kaura
Manisha Kaura is studying German and French full-time with ambitions to return to an academic degree-seeking path and become an MD/PhD trained clinical geneticist and citizen in a country outside of the United States. She is passionate about volunteering and aims to work in social impact, building new genetic treatment center infrastructure, personally developing novel treatments for the world's most ultra-rare genetic diseases being ignored by large pharmaceutical companies, and working as a dual Professor of Clinical Genetics and as a philanthropic innovator with lawsuit wins taking treatments from bench to bedside quickly and without needing outside grant sources of money. Her biggest aspiration in life is doing groundbreaking research that eventually gets published in refereed medical journals--which she has always loved devouring--and translated into actual treatments for other ultra-rare disease patients around the world. Previously, Manisha was a rising star in creative and nonprofit work who won numerous awards and did highly innovative work that ultimately left her seeking more humanitarian impact. Her professional accomplishments include giving a TEDx talk at age 23, filming a documentary at age 24, working in clinical trials at age 24, presenting fashion collections at New York Fashion Week at age 25, being invited into the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture at age 27, running a podcast from ages 27 to 29, animating videos from ages 26 to 29, and founding a health-focused nonprofit organization that she ran for 6 years from ages 23 to 29 (with a student organization version of the nonprofit starting at age 19). A Junior League member for 6 years ages 21 to 27, she is well trained in the management of creative and nonprofit organizations and is also both a former World Economic Forum Global Shaper in Australia and a former Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts in England. Her experiences of living in different cities and abroad from a young age have informed her global citizen approach to her life and her future dual research and treatments.