Meet the Founders

Introducing the 4 founders of Universal Medicine!


Gagandeep Sachdeva: I was born in India and moved to Northampton at a young age. I am studying Medicine at the University of Birmingham. Aside from my studies, I enjoy badminton and table tennis and have competed in tournaments. We decided to create this blog to further explore what interested us in science and this platform was the perfect way to share our passion. Crucially, it also provided the opportunity to inspire others into academia and raise awareness of current avenues of scientific research.

Satbachan Bassan: Hi my name is Sab and I’m from Northampton. I am a Chemical Engineering student at Aston University. I currently represent the university with their football and train as well as play up to 3 times a week. Football and sports have always been close to my education. I got into writing the blog as I was very intrigued by new and old articles based around science and wanted to write pieces on some of my favourite topics. With writing the blog I found that it was engaging me more with my academic studies and enhanced my knowledge on the researched topics. With my current degree, I have found that some of the readings are very demanding and require a lot of attention to detail and so, Universal Medicine has aided me to comfortably adapt to these readings.


Chris Morgan: I am born and bred in Northampton. I am studying for a Masters in Chemical Engineering at Loughborough University. Outside of my studies, I train in athletics, specialising in hurdles which is especially cool at Loughborough as I am surrounded by and training with international athletes. I started writing for the blog as it was a nice opportunity to do more research on interesting topics.


Adil Rahman: I was born in Northampton and I am studying Dentistry. Outside of studies, I play football in the university league. Moreover, I play snooker and have been coached for many years by a WPBSA snooker coach- I regularly enter snooker tournaments. I started writing for the blog to enable me to research topics of interest and share my findings along the way.

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