CAYHIC’26 | Central Asian Youth Health Innovation Conference

🧬 Our first cohort of 200 students is officially taking on the CAYHIC '26 Health Innovation Challenge!

Over the coming days, our participants will research, build, and pitch real solutions to real healthcare problems — topics like an AI Health Interpreter, a Digital Health Passport, a Rural Healthcare Navigator, a Mental Health Early-Support Tool, and more.

Our judging panel will be announced soon — and every team will pitch their idea directly to them.

🏆 Top 3 presentations win an award of recognition
🎓 Every participant receives a Certificate of Participation

We can't wait to see what this generation of future health innovators brings to the table.

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CAYHIC Day 1: Recap

Ulugbek Baymuradov — From Gene to Medicine: Retracing a Cancer Drug's Discovery with AlphaFold and Free Genomics Tools

Ulugbek traced the real story of one cancer drug — trastuzumab (Herceptin) — from the discovery of the HER2 gene in 1985 all the way to today's next-generation antibody drugs, showing the free tools scientists actually use at every step along the way.

1. Breast cancer is the #1 cancer among women in all five Central Asian countries — and about 1 in 5 cases is HER2-positive, exactly the kind this drug targets.

2. There are 1,735 trastuzumab clinical trials registered worldwide — only 2 in Kazakhstan, and 0 in Uzbekistan and the other three countries.

3. Every step of drug discovery now has a free tool anyone can try: cBioPortal for genes, UniProt and AlphaFold for proteins, RCSB PDB in 3D, DepMap for cells, and ClinicalTrials.gov for real-world trials.

Ulugbek has also shared valuable materials and exciting competitions for our participants. Thank you, Ulugbek, for your contribution and support!

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⏳Last day to register!

Registration closes tonight at 11:59 PM, September 27.

Register now before it's too late on our website: cayhic.com

💡 Introducing Central Asian Youth Health Innovation Conference 2026

This September, we're launching the CAYHIC 2026: a free, fully online conference connecting students across Central Asia with international researchers and healthcare professionals.

Running September 28–October 7, CAYHIC is open to university students and high schoolers (grades 10–11) from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan studying medicine, public health, and related health sciences.

The program includes expert-led sessions, live Q&A, a Health Innovation Challenge, and a certificate for participants, conducted in English (~IELTS 6.0 or equivalent).

In collaboration with Central Asian University, CANA School, and Freshman Research Institute.

⚡️We can't wait to bring Central Asia's future health leaders together.

Registration closes on September 27.

Reserve your spot on the website: cayhic.com

@freshmanresearch x @Cana_School x @centralasianuni x @cayhic x @freshmanblog

⚡️Meet the main team behind CAYHIC 2026

Building opportunities for the next generation of leaders in medicine and health.

🔗 Registration closes on September 27 — register now

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Welcome our new speaker to CAYHIC 2026!

A leading voice in health systems and population health research, working to strengthen primary care across Central Asia.

Full reveal coming soon. Stay tuned.

CAYHIC 2026 - September 28–October 7, free and fully online, for young people who are interested in medicine and health-related fields.

🔗 Registration closes on September 27 — register now

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Two updates for CAYHIC 2026:

Registration deadline has been extended to September 27.

We're also opening our conference to high school students (grades 10–11) interested in medicine and biology.

CAYHIC 2026 runs September 28–October 7, free and fully online.

🔗 Register now!

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Welcome Mr Jason Ali to CAYHIC 2026!

Mr Ali is a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Royal Papworth Hospital and an Affiliated Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, where he also serves as Subdean for the School of Clinical Medicine. He is Co-Lead Investigator for EuroSCORE III, the internationally used cardiac surgical risk-prediction model, and has authored over 140 publications cited more than 3,000 times.

His session, "Predicting the Unpredictable: How Data Is Changing Cardiac Surgery Risk," explores how surgical risk-prediction models are built, validated, and used in real clinical decision-making — and what happens when data science meets the operating room.

CAYHIC 2026 - September 28–October 7, free and fully online, for young people who are interested in medicine and health-related fields.

🔗 Registration closes on September 27 — register now

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Welcome Ulugbek Baymuradov to CAYHIC 2026!

Ulugbek is a computational biologist and AI engineer who builds data systems for cancer drug discovery and aging research. He previously worked as an engineer at Stanford University on the team behind the ENCODE data portal, and has also worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the New York Genome Center. He is a co-author of papers in Nature and Nature Medicine, and is originally from Uzbekistan.

His session, "From Gene to Medicine: Retracing a Cancer Drug's Discovery with AlphaFold and Free Genomics Tools," follows the real story of a cancer drug from gene discovery to clinical use — and the free tools students can use to explore that same science themselves.

CAYHIC 2026 - September 28–October 7, free and fully online, for young people who are interested in medicine and health-related fields.

🔗 Registration closes on September 27 — register now

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⚡️ What's New at CAYHIC?

We've officially launched our LinkedIn & Website

And if you haven't registered yet — good news: we've extended the registration deadline to September 27 (extended).

CAYHIC 2026 runs September 28–October 7, free and fully online.

🔗 Register right now

Welcome Milutin Milojković to CAYHIC 2026!

Milutin is a biomedical engineer specializing in medical-device development, AI-enabled diagnostics, and embedded biosensing. He currently leads machine learning and device development for GlucoSense AI, a non-invasive glucose-monitoring platform, and contributes to STRATIFYHF, an AI-driven approach to heart-failure risk stratification. He holds a B.S. in Bioengineering from NYU (cum laude) and will pursue an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University.

His session, "From Clinical Need to Health Innovation: Designing for the Real World," will explore how real-world constraints — cost, infrastructure, clinical workflow, and accessibility — should shape the way we approach innovation in biomedical technology.

CAYHIC 2026 - September 28–October 7, free and fully online, for young people who are interested in medicine and health-related fields.

🔗 Registration closes on September 27 — register now

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Welcome our first guest speaker — Milena Stepanova!

Milena is a psychotherapist and Senior Associate for Healthcare Innovations & International Collaboration at the Moscow Innovation Cluster Foundation, with an MS in Psychology from the University of Michigan. She's trained across several evidence-based modalities, including CBT, ACT, DBT, and behavior therapy.

Her session, "Science-Based Mental Health: CBT and Its Branches, and What Works at Scale," will explore what separates genuinely evidence-based psychotherapy from what isn't — and how individual-level clinical approaches can be adapted to work at a population level.

CAYHIC 2026 - September 28–October 7, free and fully online, for young people who are interested in medicine and health-related fields.

🔗 Registration closes on September 27 — register now

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Registration for CAYHIC '26 is now open!

Applications close September 27, 2026

🔗 Register here

Any questions? Reach us via @cayhicadmin

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What is CAYHIC?

A free, fully online conference connecting Central Asian high-school students & undergraduates — in medicine, public health, biochemistry, bioengineering, nursing, pharmacy, and related fields — with researchers, healthcare professionals, and academics.

Expert sessions. Live Q&A. A real Health Innovation Challenge. Connections across Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan.

Conducted in English (~IELTS 6.0 or equivalent).

Explore. Learn. Connect. Innovate.

📎 Register here

💬 Questions? @cayhicadmin