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Today, the PhD graduate works for Intel Corporation. His passion for making a difference has remained strong. “We crave for knowledge, we crave for impact,” he says. “The search for doing something that will change the world is not a function of your skin colour, is not a function of where you come from. It is a matter of your determination, matter of your readiness to take up challenges.”
In his fourth year in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at U of I, graduate student Ezekiel Adekanmbi explored his passion for detecting diseases. “Over one million people die from malaria each year,” he says. “But it's possible that some of these deaths are actually caused by tick-borne babesiosis. Because I’m a Vandal, I have been able to create a more accurate method of diagnosis, potentially saving lives in the process.”
Under a microscope, babesiosis looks exactly like plasmodium, which is responsible for malaria. For this reason, many get misdiagnosed.
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