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Waheed Amanji

Waheed Amanjee is a final-year MBChB medical student and MSc researcher at University of Cape Town's Clinical Omics and Informatics Unit, with a BMedSc (Hons) in Bioinformatics; 2025 Mandela Rhodes Scholar and co-founder of African Research Society.

Jul 22, 2026

11:10
so how do you think that like what do you think that looks like for someone that's trying to navigate the space if things are maybe a little bit uncertain do you think there's there's room for for improvements or like think do you maybe think there's topics that people should be exposed a little bit more towards while they're pursuing maybe their undergraduate degree
11:37
Absolutely.
11:37
So I feel that I've been so fortunate to have this exposure.
11:42
I sometimes just chat to some of my colleagues in my medical class and they ask me like, what are you doing? Why are you running to meetings in Virginia or whatever? And I'll just speak about what Long Read is and like the work that we're doing at COIN.
11:54
And a lot of people are like, how do I get involved on the side? And I think with regards to that uncertainty, it's also that excitement from a career perspective.
12:03
I do often have to answer my parents when they ask me, how are you going to make money one day? You know, and I think it's more of the belief in knowing that this is we've been hearing about precision medicine along the way.
12:15
But how do we get towards that? How do we actually help patients with rare diseases? And genomics does allow for that.

21 MINS LATER

33:42
But if anyone has any perspectives on the future, I would love to hear them.

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