Our speaker
Yoʻldoshev Nabijon Pirimovich
Doctor of Medical Sciences, top-category cardiologist
- 26 years of experience
Catalyst · Healing Futures
The way into medicine
gets shorter
Catalyst is an interactive learning platform that brings together school students, university students and young professionals drawn to medicine. It began in November 2025.
We build clinical and analytical thinking, teach a creative approach to medical problems, and connect young people with people who work in the field. Alongside the science, we try to be useful: through volunteering, health campaigns and social projects.
- events held
- 9
- regions
- 5
- partner schools and universities
- 7
- community members
- 400+
01 · Partnership
The universities and schools we have run events with
Every Catalyst session runs together with a partner school or university. Universities and schools from Tashkent to Fergana, Namangan, Khorezm and Samarkand have opened their doors to us.
Our partners
Three sessions in Tashkent
Two sessions in Fergana
Academic lyceum, Namangan
Regional tour, Khorezm
Regional tour, Fergana
Regional tour, Samarkand
What a partner gets
- A ready-made eventCatalyst brings the programme, speakers, judges, cases and certificates.
- Media coverageThe event is covered on Telegram, Instagram and LinkedIn.
- Brand visibilityThe partner's logo on every material, announcement and video report.
- A long-term networkAccess to an active community of young people drawn to medicine across the country.
- Student engagementHands-on medical experience and networking for your students.
What we ask of a partner
A hall, a projector, a microphone and space for a coffee break.
02 · Event strategy
How one Catalyst event comes together
The “Build a Disease” challenge is the heart of the day. Getting there takes five steps: a venue, a speaker, a case, a competition and the pitch.
- 01
Find an organisation
Every event starts with a partner institution: a university, an academic lyceum or a private school.
The partner provides the hall, projector, microphone and space for a coffee break. Everything else is ours. All three of our Tashkent sessions took place at New Uzbekistan University.
New Uzbekistan University - 02
Find a speaker
Participants should hear the textbook from a real doctor. So every event has a specialist from the field.
Speakers lecture on current topics: mental health, immunity, healthy eating.
- 03
Create a medical challenge
We prepare the case for the teams: a real clinical situation or a “Build a Disease” brief.
In “Build a Disease” a team invents a new, fictional disease and works it up the whole way, as a clinician would:
- 01 · Cause
- 02 · Symptoms
- 03 · Diagnosis
- 04 · Treatment
- 05 · Presentation
A team's invented disease: “Neuroregulatory T-cell deficiency syndrome” - 04
Competition
The case is explained to the teams: the clinical situation, the terms of the task and how it will be judged.
Then the teams work together on the diagnosis, the causes and the treatment strategy. One day, one challenge, a big opportunity.
Namangan: teams working on the case - 05
Pitching
Each team defends its solution before a panel of medical judges and answers their questions.
The judges score each solution from 1 to 10 and choose the winners. Every participant receives an official certificate.
Kristall Academy, Fergana: a team defends its disease
03 · Events
Events we have run
From a social project to a nationwide Medical Challenge, newest first. Open any of them for the full story, the figures and the photographs.
04 · Team
Who runs Catalyst
The team that organises the sessions, agrees them with schools and universities, and runs the channel and the photography.
Core team
The co-founders who started Catalyst and lead it.
Diyorbek
AbduhalilovProject Co-founder
Nurulloh
ShukrullayevProject Co-founder
Operational Team
The people who run each session on the ground, the channel and the photography.
Asliddin
AkhadovMedia
Sabinabonu
KhusanovaEvent Manager
Sofiya
RustamovaPR
05 · Vision
One place to grow for Uzbekistan's future doctors
By 2027 we aim to build an active Catalyst community in every region of the country and a lasting network of partnerships with universities and medical centres.
- regions (target)
- 14
- age range
- 14-25
- participants (target)
- 1,000+
- Education: lectures, seminars and challenges on current topics
- Clinical thinking: case analysis and the “Build a Disease” format
- Mentoring: contact with experienced doctors, researchers and experts
- Giving back: volunteering, health campaigns and social projects
06 · Apply
Join the Catalyst community
Take part in the next Medical Challenges, help run them as a volunteer, or become the ambassador who brings a Catalyst event to your region. Fill the application in with care: the team reads every one.