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Leighton Duncan, Jamaica-born neuroscientist.
Jamaica-born Neuroscientist Leighton Duncan loves spending time inside the laboratory at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he currently works, but the reality that there are not too many West Indians there in his field is a real concern.
So far, he has come across one other person from Trinidad and Tobago and gradually, he has come to realise that Caribbean students do not seem to gravitate as much to the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects.
“If you come from an under-represented background, you will have a totally different thinking of who you are in that field, and it makes things really hard not being able to see people who look like you,” he said.