Neuroscientists, clinicians, engineers, and educators from the world's leading institutions, working together to advance neuroscience, environmental health, and STEM education in Kosovo and beyond.
The Xheladin & Xhufe Morina Foundation grew out of BrainCamp Kosovo, a project initiated in 2018 by Dr. Egzona Morina, then a doctoral student in neuroscience at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, University College London.
BrainCamp Kosovo was a week-long course, held in April 2018, where PhD students from UCL taught neuroscience to ATOMI students in Prishtina. Established in 2011, ATOMI is an organization that identifies and supports children with extraordinary intelligence (IQ 140 and above, 99.6 percentile rank, top 0.4% of the population).
Struck by the raw intelligence of the ATOMI students but saddened by the lack of opportunities afforded to this talented group of young people, Dr. Egzona Morina founded this charity with the hope that these students could pursue education and careers in STEM outside of Kosovo.
The foundation's core mission is to expand opportunities for students in Kosovo to pursue STEM education and research, both locally and internationally. This mission is advanced through five key areas:
Kosovo has the youngest population of any country in Europe and thus the most opportunity for growth and future success. That success is reliant on the education of its young population. It is our hope that students supported by XHMF will not only become successful individuals, but will return to Kosovo and contribute to the education of future generations.
PhD in Neuroscience from the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL. Postdoctoral research at MIT. PI of ENRI and affiliated faculty at Harvard's Center for Climate Health and the Global Environment.
PhD in Neuroscience at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre (UCL), postdoctoral work at MIT. Senior Machine Learning Applied Scientist at Precision Neuroscience.
PhD from UC Berkeley; postdoc at UCSF. Professor of otolaryngology and neuroscience & physiology at NYU School of Medicine.
Clinical psychologist working with gifted children in Kosovo. Executive director of the ATOMI Institute. External expert for the Ministry of Education.
PhD in economics and a PhD in disease ecology. Associate professor of global health at Harvard Medical School. Co-founder & scientific director of PIVOT.
Joint appointment at Arizona State University in Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering and the College of Health Solutions, and Associate Dean of Research and Commercialization,
Founder of AL Pharm, a pharmaceutical company in Kosovo. Eleven years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
Second-year student at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Prishtina. Passionate about neuroscience and technology.
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