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.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT ANIRUDH MAZUMDER, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2025.
Stanford University | California, United States | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 9
" I'm excited to be a Millennium Fellow because it allows me to harness technology and collaboration to make an impact on patient lives. Through KidneyChain, I hope to bridge the gap between innovation and healthcare delivery, empowering kidney patients with better access, transparency, and hope. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: KidneyChain
Significant disparities exist in access to transplants for historically marginalized groups (HMG)—for example, black patients in the U.S. account for only 15% of annual kidney recipients. In the fall of 2023, I co-founded KidneyChain to address the critical shortage of kidneys for transplants, especially for HMG patients, due to ineffective donor-to-patient matching processes. Recognizing the importance of preserving donor kidneys during transportation, we first built a platform that tracks the organ's location, ensuring its safe journey from donor to recipient. Our ongoing efforts include expanding the capabilities of the platform with a matching procedure and an organ viability screening module, which has the potential to revolutionize the donor-to-patient matching process. We are also actively engaging nephrologists to integrate our platform into pilot clinics.
About the Millennium Fellow
Anirudh Mazumder is a freshman at Stanford University studying Computer Science and Mathematics. He is passionate about developing computational tools to help save human lives and exploring the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare issues. He does research at Harvard Medical School on developing algorithms to provide novel insights into biomedical issues and different diseases. Anirudh is also an advocate for the National Kidney Foundation, interested in helping improve kidney patients' welfare.
