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January 07, 2007 |
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Currently I work in a molecular biology lab, researching breast cancer. I find this career to be very rewarding, as it has the potential to impact patient care and prognoses in future clinical populations. Given a chance to start over, I would continue working in research, although I might look to focus on projects with more of a translational or clinical aspect, rather than working solely in a laboratory setting. The only downside I have found in this career is the ratio of men to women in the field. I am currently the only woman working in my lab, and this has some impact on my ability to form collegial relationships with my coworkers. Other than that concern, I have found this work to be most rewarding. Often, people look at grants received by medical researchers, and think that it is an enormous amount of money, and wonder why more progress isn't being made in the field. The truth is that, even with million dollar grants, a huge percentage of the budget goes towards overhead, general laboratory supplies, and salaries for researchers and lab technicians. This means the science itself is receiving only a small portion of the large grant. |
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