Cancer Personal Statement

By questioning everything that happens has always formed a big part of my life and occupied my thoughts in my spare time. Growing up as a curious child made me appreciate the small changes in nature and the complexities of the life around me, from understanding how the human body works to asking the question “why”. My undergraduate and graduate academia at Indiana University of Pennsylvania have provided me with a solid comprehensive and diverse background in a wide variety of scientific disciplines including physics, organic chemistry, genetics, biochemistry, toxicology, and microbiology where I maintain an active interest. By acquiring these distinct experiences, they have contributed to my overall desire in becoming an independent researcher.

Through these, I have seen the devastation of cancer ranging from the side effects of chemotherapy to coping with cancer in everyday life. Nevertheless, I had a family member whose prospect of surviving was not as hopeful since the cancer was at a later stage. My important goal is to learn how to formulate experiments in the screening, targeting, and detection cancer in early stages. Additionally, I believe that this can be a future possibility of improving medical treatments for patients with various malignancies.

Specifically, I found my true passion to be in the area of cancer research while I was doing my graduate research project on analysis of electrical resistance of Cobalt / Antimony embedded nanoparticle system. If the same technology could be used in the medical field where we could use it to measure the electrical resistance on Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) as a tumor marker for Cancer in the sense that it can be done by embedding the CEA into nanoparticles in any Bilayer, which in return can be used to measure the electrical resistance and detect cancer proteins in early

I am particular interested learning from renowned professors, who will give me practical and theoretical hands on experience in a high-quality laboratory at McMaster University Stem Cell Research Institute, which will add to the academic body of research and develop experiment that will address important question in this field of research. Nonetheless, I want to make an appeal, It would be my pleasure working with Dr. Kristin Hope, who tremendous experiences in stem cell approach to leukemia will provide the platform toward achieving my goals. Also, I would like to work with Dr. Mick Bhatia whose research focus on cancer drug screening in respect to my goal. Adding to my list, Dr. Sheila Singh and Dr. Brad Doble research on targeting the recurrent of medulloblastoma through Wnt activation will provide a solid foundation towards my