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<span id="docs-internal-guid-84544c55-7fff-9ac2-e8a6-5151d8dc80ad"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">'''Cosima Decho '''is a University Innovation Fellow Candidate and an undergraduate</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">student studying '''Biomedical Sciences ''' at </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. She sensed her passion for helping other people at a very young age and always tried to improve other people’s situations. Therefore, it was no surprise that she wanted to become an ambulance woman at the Austrian Red Cross at the age of only seventeen. To gain a deeper insight in the causes for diseases, she decided to study Biomedical Sciences. In her class, Cosima is also the representative for all the other students as she’s willing both to communicate with professors a lot and to listen to other student’s issues in order to find a suitable solution. </span>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-84544c55-7fff-9ac2-e8a6-5151d8dc80ad"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Biology and medicine are not the only field of her interest: while growing up, she also discovered that she is talented with languages. During attending secondary school, she learned no less than four foreign languages, including English, French, Italian and Latin (which helps her to understand a little bit of Spanish, too). </span></span>