This week, we are featuring the portrait of Mancy Tong, a third year postdoc at the Yale School of Medicine where she studies how the maternal immune system responds to infection and potentially causes pre-term birth. Mancy was born in Hong Kong, grew up in New Zealand, and came to New Haven three years ago.
Born in Cambodia, two year old SreyRam Kuy escaped from the Khmer Rouge but was severely injured during a bombing in a refugee camp in Thailand. She was treated by a Red Cross surgeon, which inspired her to later become the first female Cambodian refugee to work as a surgeon in the United States.
This spring, one of our incredibly talented international undergrads, Surbhi Bharadwaj, has been working on an exciting photo project for our office. In January, we put out a call to our international community asking those interested to sign-up to have their photo taken by Surbhi to be featured on one of our walls in the OISS office.
