Yaw Ansong

Yaw is a physician-scientists from Ghana who immigrated to the U.S. for graduate school. During his practice, he was struck by the lack of diagnostics and treatments for treating patients with sickle cell disease. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Bioengineering at UC Berkeley and has published peer-reviewed papers on the use of 3D Quantitative Phase Imaging and Machine Learning in medical diagnostics. Yaw has an MD from the University of Cape Coast, and an MS from the University of New Haven.