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Fourth-year student Alaleh Azhir is one of 32 American students to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 2019, which enables her to pursue a graduate degree at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

Azhir, the Marci Kenney Scholar, who came to the United States at age 14 from Iran, has pursued a triple major at the Whiting School\u2014in biomedical engineering<\/a>, computer science<\/a>, and applied mathematics and statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Since the beginning of her second year, she has worked in the lab of Johns Hopkins pathologist David Nauen, helping design and build a tool to visualize and compare changes in gene expression that the lab uses to investigate the development of epilepsy. She also has conducted research in labs at Harvard, the \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne in Switzerland, and the National Institutes of Health.<\/p>\n

At Oxford, she will work toward her master\u2019s degree in women\u2019s and reproductive health\u2014a field that combines her love of math, data, and statistics with her interests in health, biology, and the human genome. She will use data collected by the United Kingdom\u2019s National Health Service to understand how difficult pregnancies contribute to heart problems for women in later life. She hopes to use NHS data to create models that help predict\u2014and prevent\u2014these health outcomes.<\/p>\n

Studying data from the NHS is a unique opportunity for Azhir because a national, uniform health coding system does not exist in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\u201cConditions common to men and women may present differently in women\u2014for example, women often get misdiagnosed for heart attacks,\u201d she says. \u201cI want to dedicate my career to understanding those health disparities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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