Sevda Memet

Sevda Memet, from Constanta, Romania, is pursuing a master’s degree in business administration at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a master’s degree in public policy at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. She graduated summa cum laude from Ovidius University with a medical degree. She aspires to help cancer patients by creating the first oncological system in Romania that will focus on integrated medicine and genetic testing. At Constanta Regional Hospital, she was chief resident in the hematology-oncology and rare diseases department. Previously, she interned at the hospital in the gastroenterology and plastic surgery departments, and at MedStar Clinic in general and vascular surgery. She was awarded national honors from the Romanian government for medical research and medical entrepreneurship, and won the grand prize in the NASA Space Settlement Design Contest for designing a self-sufficient colony on Mars.