Muhammad – Muhammad is in his first year studying for a DPhil in Biology at the Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial research. He holds a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine and a MPhil in Microbiology from the University of Faisalabad. He comes from a humble village (Rasool Nagar) near Faisalabad in Pakistan. Some of his fees are being covered by a scholarship from the Government of Punjab. He describes his research focus as: i) molecular epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance in food animals in Pakistan; and ii) in vivo bacterial acquisition of resistance genes in response to evolutionary pressure and their fitness cost on pathogenicity and survivability.

Moosa – Moosa is studying for a MSc in Social Anthropology at Oxford. He has a BA in Anthropology from NYU (cum laude, Dean’s list) and has previously interned at Freedom House and Tabadlab, a think tank in Pakistan. He has a particular interest in press freedom.