Gust Vandecandelaere
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGust Vandecandelaere is a clinician-innovator and founder’s associate with 11 years of experience bridging neurosurgical research, medical innovation, and healthtech venture programs across London, Boston, and Belgium. Trained at KU Leuven and embedded in Harvard Medical School’s Choi Lab working on CAR T-cell therapy for glioblastoma, he combines hands-on translational research with startup-facing roles at OpenSRE and Tracer. He founded the Junior Orsi Fellowships to fund healthcare research and has a track record of leading education and innovation programs, from chairing the Junior Orsi Academy to winning the Vattikuti Medical Innovation Summit. Equally comfortable in the OR and in venture evaluation, he has practical clinical experience as a kidney preservationist and is pursuing an MSc in Artificial Intelligence to fuse computational methods with surgical therapeutics. Notably, he has repeatedly translated competitive academic work into real-world impact—raising major funds for cancer initiatives and directing scholarship programs that send students to top research centers.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine - MD, Doctor of Medicine - MD at KU LeuvenResearch Fellowship, Department of Neurosurgery, Choi Lab, Research Fellowship, Department of Neurosurgery, Choi Lab at Harvard Medical SchoolSciences - Mathematics (8h) - Latin, Sciences - Mathematics (8h) - Latin at College Izegem (Highschool)
Github Skills (23)
docx9
pdf9
outliner8
linux8
pandoc8
libreoffice8
nodejs8
markdown8
duckduckgo7
perl7
desktop7
windows7
wysiwyg7
html7
macos7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
candelaere/TextThing
Oct 2018 - Sep 2024
Retro Text Editor is a simple text file editor.
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 years
electronretrotext-filelinuxmacos
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