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      Asked by anon-290125 to Marcel on 15 Mar 2021.
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        Marcel Jaspars answered on 15 Mar 2021:


        I was lucky. I loved marine life and had a degree in chemistry. I was looking at people I’d like to work with and found my mentor Prof Phil Crews in California and he worked on anti-cancer chemicals from coral reef sponges. I wrote a cheeky letter to him and he gave me a job!

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