Biomedical Research Program: The Summer Edition
For this past summer I was fortunate enough to continue my research over at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center through the Biomedical Research Program, which was coordinated through the Honors Program. I continued to work in the Pulmonary Biology and Neonatology lab under the supervision of Dr. Debora Sinner where we continued to work on figuring out the pathways related to cartilage ring development in the trachea. I started a few weeks into the summer did and was in the lab for about 8 hours a day, versus the 8 hours a week I was putting in last semester. For the majority of the summer Dr. Sinner was actually not right there with me giving me articles to read and teaching me many techniques like she was the past semester. Instead she was much more hands off and gave me much more responsibility to do all of the procedures on my own and only come to her if I had questions and/or concerns. One of the big procedures I would participate in was called the in-situ hybridization which would last up to 4 days and involved locating a specific gene sequence in certain embryonic lungs.I chose to continue in research because it is such a big part of medicine, a field I eventually hope to practice and be apart of as a physician. Along to that I have come to really enjoy researching and it has become almost a good getaway where I can not worry about school and focus only on researching, nothing else. Not only that, but I had a strong exposure to the clinical side of medicine but not the research portion so by immersing myself in research for a whole semester, I came out having a much better understanding and appreciation for the value that research has in our society and especially in the field of medicine. All in all, I never thought of pursuing a dual degree such as and MD/PhD, I always figured I would obtain an regular MD and was closed off to the idea of any other sort of degree. While I won’t say I’m fully convinced on getting a PhD yet, this experience has opened my eyes up to the possibility and has taught me that I should never make a judgment about something before I actually fully experience it for myself, and that is something that I will take with me not only for the rest of my academic career, but for the rest of my life as well. Below is the final version of my poster presentation that I made for the end of summer SURF capstone poster symposium.
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