Career Opportunities
Working in the lab has been a big hit with many of the HHMI summer fellows.
Racquel Quarless is sold on her experience in George Truskey’s biomedical engineering lab. “I am almost positive that biomedical research is the field in which I would like to make a career. I am intrigued by the remarkable progress and potential of the field and I am excited to see where my work in the lab will take me.”
Kristin Knouse is having such a good time in Xiao-Fan Wang’s cancer biology lab that she’s thinking of adding a PhD to her goal of an MD. “A combined MD/PhD degree would allow me to combine both the research and clinical aspects of medicine. More specifically, I feel that the fields of cancer biology and infectious disease are exciting, dynamic fields that could be pursued as a physician scientist.”
And Sidney Kuo has progressed from documenting how painful it is to be in Fred Dietrich’s lab at the ungodly hour of 9 a.m. to willingly putting in extra hours toward the big goal. “What I didn’t see beforehand, however, is the importance of having an ultimate goal in mind. That goal is what makes me willingly want to spend more time after work, or go in on weekends to work. And the progress that is made from all this work toward this goal is a very exhilarating form of satisfaction, something that makes work ultimately enjoyable despite the reptitive nature of the process.”