My name is Emmanuelle Faure-Kumar. I am working at UCLA in the laboratory of Dr. Dimitrios
Iliopoulos. He's the director of the center for systems biomedicine and I'm a scientists.
I'm trying to find some tool, genetic tool to study different kind of disease so just
cancer, so it can be any kind of cancer, pancreatic cancer, or prostate cancer, breast cancer,
anything and trying just to find the right tools, genetics tools to make it going away,
this cancer.
I am come from Paris, in France. And it's where I did all my PhD, all my education over
there. My parents were not scientists at all. My dad was a professor and my mom was working
in accounting so no, not at all. I'm the only scientist in the family. I always loved biology.
It was a natural transition for me. My professor, my teachers in the high school were very motivating
so it's why I decided to become a scientist.
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So my work is actually is a collaboration with a lot of people. I'm not the only one
at this department. I'm doing the part of all the projects of other people so in my
case I'm trying to find studying with one of the equipment that we have, the gene expression
of different disease where you can see some relevance, some gene are more expressed than
other ones compared to the people who are not sick in the disease.
Life in the lab is not boring at all. It's very entertaining. Collaboration with a lot
of people and like you can see in the labs, it's very international is what it's like.
It's good in science you interact with a lot of different culture and it's wonderful. I
mean it's just not boring at all and some days your experiments don't work so you are
a little bit down but if you go to talk to someone else you see that you're not the only
one so you help each other. It's wonderful.
Well I hope that eventually, I hope that in the near future that if we do a drug discovery
from an experiment or whatever, we can go to clinical trial and eventually find the
cure if not find, improve the life of the people who already inflicted with this disease.
If you consider a career in science, I will advise you to maybe come to the lab, find
a lab or what and try to put your hand on to observe someone to work a little bit to
see if you like it or not. Me for me on my case I know that the day I starting to put
my hand on the bench at work I enjoy it. It's what my, I don't love to study but I love
the bench work. Well science is a wonderful work. Even if you don't see the research right
away and something step by step, it's still a part of your life that you are invested
into it and later on you will, you may not see the result right, immediately in your
lifetime but it's still wonderful because we need science always and we need young people
to continue on our work that we have been started.