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Maya Burhanpurkar | |
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| Born | February 14, 1999 (age 26) Orillia, Ontario, Canada |
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Maya Burhanpurkar (born February 14, 1999) is a Canadian investment banker and former researcher.
Burhanpurkar was born in Orillia, Ontario, Canada and completed high school in 2016 at Barrie North Collegiate Institute. [1] [2] She was an undergraduate majoring in physics at Harvard College. She has been awarded a Rhodes scholarship to study Computer Science and the Philosophy of Physics at Oxford University. [3]
At the age of 10, Burhanpurkar built a microbiology lab in her family basement and began conducting scientific experiments after volunteering in a hospital in India. [4] [5] Two years later, she developed an intelligent-antibiotic which selectively kills pathogenic bacteria such as E-coli but preserves intestinal microbiota. [6]
When she was 13, she received the Platinum Award at the Canada-Wide Science Fair for her work on the cardiac and gastrointestinal safety of two Alzheimer's drugs. [7] [8] Burhanpurkar was inspired to study the safety of Alzheimer's drugs after the death of her grandfather from Alzheimer's disease. [9] [10]
At the age of 14, Burhanpurkar conducted fundamental physics research for which she was again awarded the Platinum Award at the Canada-Wide Science fair. [11] She made the first physical detection of absement with a team in Steve Mann's lab, competed at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, [12] and was selected as a regional finalist for the 2013 Google Science Fair. [13] [14]
She filmed a documentary on the effects of climate change on Inuit communities featuring Chris Hadfield and Margaret Atwood after an expedition to the Arctic which received the international Gloria Barron prize. [15] [16] [17] [18]
In 2013, Burhanpurkar was named one of Canada's Top 20 Under 20. [1] She was a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012) [19] and was the Ontario Junior Citizen of the Year (2010). [20]