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Rise Fellow 2022

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2022 fellow

Olga Kuzmich

Belarus

Olga is an enthusiastic bioinformatician from Belarus. Her passion is to solve medical tasks using mathematics, programming, and statistics. She is especially interested in topics like cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. For her Rise project, Olga predicted the molecular effects of a potential drug against Alzheimer's disease using bioinformatics. Olga received first place at the Belarusian Biology Olympiad and was a member of a team for the International Biology Olympiad. Her goal is to spread bioinformatics among peers and become a head of a bioinformatics laboratory.