Career aspiration: be a scientific expert and leader in drug discovery and development
When I was choosing a major for college, I asked my mentor which major will have the most impact on future medicines. My mentor suggested chemistry, as it is the fundamental science of all living and non-living things. From there my journey began.
My education and career experience followed the logical sequence from micro to macro: from small molecule chemistry to protein structure-functions, then from cells/tissue cultures to animal models, then from individual human PK/PD and ADME to characterization of human populations using population PK/PD models and using these models t...