MALAYSIANSKINI | Dr Vincent J Gnanapragasam was elated when Cambridge University approved to lift his title to professor this year.

By then, he had been serving as a lecturer in urology at the university for 13 years.

To satisfy his curiosity, Vincent went to the university’s library to see if he had any predecessors

“I asked the Cambridge University library, has there ever been a readership or a professorship in urology?

“The librarian said it doesn’t look like there’s anything,” Vincent recalled during a virtual interview with Malaysiakini recently.

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