Arnav Lal, C’23, G’23, Named 2024 Samvid Scholar

Arnav Lal, C’23, G’23 was named a 2024 Samvid Scholar, a program aimed at supporting “future leaders with exceptional potential and commitment to drive change for society at scale.”

The fellowship includes two years of leadership development, a community of like-minded scholars, and up to $100,000 in funding to be put toward tuition and fees for graduate school. The three-year-old Samvid Scholars program was created by Samvid Ventures to invest in the graduate education of future leaders.
 
Lal, today a medical student at Harvard, majored in biophysics, biology, and philosophy at Penn. He was also a University Scholar, a Dean’s Scholar, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. As an undergraduate, he received the Roy and Diana Vagelos Science Challenge Award and was a Churchill Scholar, setting him up to attend the University of Cambridge for a master’s degree in biological sciences before attending medical school.

Currently, he is studying infectious disease through genomics and computational biology.