Vineet Singal

Vineet Singal is a senior at Stanford University and leads 100KCheeks, an initiative to register 100,000 new bone marrow donors from underrepresented communities, especially South Asian populations. In working closely with Professor Jennifer Aaker at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a team of 12 dedicated Stanford students, Vineet helped 100KCheeks reach its goal in one year. Vineet is currently leading efforts to register a million bone marrow donors worldwide in 2012 and jumpstart the creation of national marrow registries in countries like India and Indonesia.

Vineet wants to use his skills as a social entrepreneur and future physician to fight for greater access to quality and affordable healthcare for the underserved. His resolve solidified in Galveston, TX during the fall of 2009, when he took a leave of absence from Stanford to volunteer full time at St. Vincent’s free clinic. Back at Stanford, Vineet co-founded Anjna, a national nonprofit organization that aims to utilize technology at free clinics. Vineet helped build a network of 250+ undergraduates, medical students and faculty and is leading efforts to create health education programs at free clinics in high need areas nationwide, in addition to conducting groundbreaking pilot studies on utilizing interactive, tablet based education and SMS technology at clinics in the bay area.

Vineet has delivered talks on his social entrepreneurship work at Stanford University, Stanford Graduate School of Business, TEDxTampaBay, Medicine 2.0 and at other various conferences and events, and is scheduled to speak at TEDIndia (INK) and TEDxSoMa. He has completed and published research projects at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, and the University of Texas Medical Branch and has received research awards from Intel, the College Board, the Barry M. Goldwater Foundation, the Irene and Eric Simon Foundation and the National Cancer Institute. Vineet is a winner of the Ashoka/Staples Youth Social Entrepreneurship Competition, a Donald A. Strauss Scholar, a Haas Public Service Fellow, a DoSomething/AT&T Fellow and a Pearson Prize Fellow. Vineet serves on the Stanford University Board of Trustees and on the board of directors for Clinic by the Bay, a Volunteers in Medicine affiliated free clinic in San Francisco.