The START Entrepreneurs will conduct academic research with faculty and receive entrepreneurship education and mentorship while building fundable, early-stage new ventures such as startup companies or non-profit organizations based on the research.
These scholars are poised to become leaders in their fields, said Dean of the Faculty Gene Jarrett, who called the fellows program “an outstanding demonstration of Princeton’s ability to attract the most promising researchers from all sectors of society and all parts of the world.”
Mengistie was named a Sachs Scholar at Oxford’s Worcester College; Hughes, a Sachs Global Scholar; and Doumergue, a Sachs Scholar at Princeton.The Sachs Scholarship is intended to broaden the global experience of its recipients by providing them with
The process has the potential to lower the cost and improve the reliability of vaccines and biological medications that are temperature-sensitive, including several cancer therapies.
Princeton seniors Nathnael Mengistie and Sydney Hughes, and University of Oxford student Elise Doumergue, have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960 Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton University’s highest awards.