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ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2025

United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. This year, 60,000+ young leaders applied to join the Class of 2025 on 7,000+ campuses across 170 nations. 290+ campuses worldwide (less than 5%) were selected to host the 4,500+ Millennium Fellows.

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UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT ADITI KANADAM, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.

PES University | Bengaluru, India | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3

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" “Simplicity and efficiency are the values that drive any work I do. Being a Millennium Fellow means that I get to use these values to drive a change in the way India views healthcare, while joining a cohort of ethnically diverse and brilliant minds all around the world. The skills I gain from this Fellowship will not only help me grow as a person but also align my work with the UNAI and SDGs, for which I'm extremely excited!” "

Millennium Fellowship Project: QDrug

QDrug is a simple platform that ensures that drugs going out as part of medical camps and visits to villages and rural areas are of good, standard quality. The current problem in the medicine or pharma industries is dilution of drugs, which directly influences the effect on the drug. QDrug ensures that basic biochemical tests are passed in order to make sure the drug is of the original quality it is supposed to be. This looks like making sure the main chemical components in the drug are present and reacting, it passes basic safety tests. This would work even if the drug was made using less expensive chemicals to yield the same effect. The goal is to ensure safe and quality healthcare for people in rural areas because healthcare is something that affects each one of us every single day and is a basic necessity in society. These simple, small tests may not make a revolutionary change, but they play a big part in the butterfly effect of quality healthcare, leading to overall well being of people in society, no matter their socio-economic background.

About the Millennium Fellow

Aditi Kanadam is a driven student of Biotechnology Engineering at PES University. Born and brought up in India’s Silicon Valley - Bengaluru, Aditi has been exposed to the wonders of technology. But as long as she studied cells and organ systems, she wondered how she could integrate that with technology. Enter biotechnology engineering, where she studies the convergence of these two fields in driving change in the world. Growing up in India, Aditi aims to make significant contributions to the world healthcare sector, especially in areas where technology does not advance as quickly through lived experiences in the field.

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