Student Profiles
“When I’m faced with a new challenge I remind myself who I am and who I am going to be; at which point the challenge becomes nothing more than preparation.”
BGE Student ProfilesMeet Our Students
Biomedical Graduate Education students learn from one another as well as from our faculty. Students bring perspectives from different countries, cultural backgrounds and careers to their graduate studies, fueling productive collaborations and innovations.
493students representing 17 countries, 2022-23
30%of our students are of racial/ethnic backgrounds underrepresented in science
Meet Scholarship Recipients
Many of our students receive scholarships and other funding — from BGE, Georgetown and outside organizations — to support their work.
“My life motto is, ‘Al mal tiempo, buena cara.’ It’s an old Spanish saying that translates to presenting a good disposition in the face of adversity.”
“Health care workers could not provide the best possible and accessible health care to all communities without a proper understanding and interest in underprivileged and underrepresented minority issues.”
“I realize that a lot of the advice [my thesis mentor] has given for experiments or in analyzing data and results can be applied to things that can happen outside of the lab.”
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Meet Our Alumni
“The wealth of knowledge and experience I received, the relationships I made and the professional network I tapped into were essential to my career development.”
BGE Alumni