Why I Am A Scientist - 1023 Words

â€Å"Live the life you’ve imagined†, wrote on cover page of my notebook gave by my mentor Dr. Xu. When I was six, I witnessed my aunt suffering from serious rheumatoid arthritis and nobody even know why it happened. I imagined one day I can be a scientist to find out the causes for all those brutal diseases and fight against them. This compass navigates my career path and leads me to where I am right now, a biology student in University of Kansas. My professional journey started at 2007, my freshman year in Wuhan University, a top ranked biology program in China. I and my teammates were catching turbellarian all over the campus trying to find out the secrets of tissue regeneration. After that, I initiated a project to isolate bacteria strains from soil to reduce phosphorus in water and prohibit blue algae caused by pesticide in river and lake, which got me funded by WU undergraduate research fund in 2008. 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