The David Bangsberg and Conrad Muzoora Mentorship Project

Just har­bor­ing tal­ent is often not the whole nine-yards. It needs a teacher to grow, exper­i­ment, and learn from. If Wil­helm May­bach hadn’t received right guid­ance from Got­tlieb Daim­ler, he may not have been able to invent the inter­nal com­bus­tion engine. Look­ing at how his­to­ry of auto­mo­tive mobil­i­ty unfold­ed from this point on, it would be fair to say that there would be no Mer­cedes either. This is the dif­fer­ence right guid­ance brings. For Ulrich “Uli” Schmid-May­bach, cre­at­ing sim­i­lar oppor­tu­ni­ties that men­tor tal­ent­ed indi­vid­u­als fac­ing adver­si­ties is a nat­ur­al extension.

It all start­ed when the May­bach Foun­da­tion roped in David Bangs­berg, MD, a lead­ing researcher in cur­ing HIV to men­tor Con­rad Muzoo­ra, MD, a Ugan­dan med­ical researcher and Head of Inter­nal Med­i­cine at Mbarara Uni­ver­si­ty of Sci­ence & Tech­nol­o­gy (MUST). He exten­sive­ly trained at Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San Fran­cis­co (UCSF) and Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty. His research has been wide­ly cit­ed in major pub­li­ca­tions and lead­ing jour­nals of the world. Today, Dr. Muzoo­ra is lead­ing research on cur­ing HIV/​AIDS in Ugan­da and suc­cess­ful­ly apply­ing key find­ings of his research on patients, result­ing in favor­able out­comes. Fur­ther­more, Dr. Muzoo­ra serves as a role mod­el to the next gen­er­a­tion of young med­ical researchers and men­tors Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents in his home coun­try. The May­bach Foun­da­tion is heart­ened to be close­ly involved in a project that has pro­found­ly impact­ed the lives of the patients and the Ugan­dan soci­ety at large.