STUDENT STORY

MEET PIYUSH

Piyush Bhanu graduated with an MSc in Biomedicine and has now started a company back in India, called Xome Life Sciences, that is developing food intolerance testing kits.

What did you enjoy most about your course?

I definitely learned a lot during my studies at Salford. We had courses on enterprising our biotech products and building something for the consumer which would be helpful to them. During the entire course, I learnt about many useful and fascinating topics and interacted with different people, which really opened-up my view of the world around me!

What did you do after graduation?

I moved back to India and was successful in the bid to receive a grant of £10,000 from the Indian Government to prototype and develop an intolerance testing kit. Users of the kit will be able to detect foods that they are intolerant to and eliminate these foods from the diet in order to achieve a healthier lifestyle and fitness goals.

What are your future plans?

Currently, we are developing the prototype and soon we will be applying for patents in the UK and Germany. The next big market for us is there. The UK will certainly be our next stop once we raise to the next round, as I am quite aware of the English market.

MEET CHUKS

Chuks Onwunyi from Nigeria graduated with an MSc in Public Health and is now a Health Policy Analyst in Canada.

What was the best thing about your course?

The fact that the curriculum covered different aspects of public health. I also enjoyed the mentorship programme which enabled me to meet and work with lecturers with great experience in public health. Also, the lectures were designed to allow engagement with public health experts from different practice areas. This was a great networking opportunity!

Can you describe your career path after you graduated?

After graduating at Salford, I worked with Healthwatch Manchester in Public Health research, a role that involved monitoring nutrition and physical activity of children and young people in a bid to reduce obesity.

I later worked as a consultant, leading a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded public health program, targeted at improving maternal, neonatal and child health outcomes for 13,500 women in Northern Nigeria. I am now a Health Policy Analyst in Canada. I have led several projects including the development of the Suicide Prevention Framework, an opioid harmreduction policy strategy, and design of the alcohol harm-reduction policy options.