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All roads lead to Africa At least they did for Laura Lopez Pascua, who left Sevenoaks in 2000. A BSc in Biology took her to Bath University, and an MSc in Molecular Medicine was completed in London at Imperial. A DPhil at Oxford covered Ecology and the Evolution of Infectious Diseases. And then came the Ebola crisis. In West Africa, Dr Lopez Pascua’s volunteer work earned her the Queen’s medal for service.