• Question: What made you pick being a scientist? Was there something that started it?

    Asked by anon-328259 on 29 Jun 2022.
    • Photo: Karin Purshouse

      Karin Purshouse answered on 20 Jun 2022:

      I wanted to do research alongside being a doctor because once I started my doctor training, I wanted to know why we did certain things, or how new drugs came to exist. And then I did my science degree and I realised you can be a doctor AND a scientist. So I was already doing something else when I realised it was something I wanted to do

    • Photo: Annabel Black

      Annabel Black answered on 20 Jun 2022:

      I found human biology really interesting in school and found that I was quite good at it. I also found the immune system units we studied the most interesting and that’s what made me want to apply to study immunology. Once I started my degree, I found modules about cancer immunology the most interesting and therefore applied to do my masters work placement year in the Beatson research institute working with other cancer researchers. It was this that really convinced me cancer research was what I wanted to do and now I’m doing my PhD in it. I’ve found following what I find most interesting (and therefore tend to be best at) has worked out well!

    • Photo: Chelsea Gerada

      Chelsea Gerada answered on 24 Jun 2022:

      I was always interested in how different animals have evolved and how the human body works. I received a microscope for Christmas one year, and being able to see a whole other microscopic world really intrigued me.

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