It takes an exceptional person to become a great physician or scientist, but excellence in medicine requires
relationships that connect and
That's why at Weill Cornell. We place a special focus on mentoring
It's the foundation of the best patient care and the next big discoveries
That emphasis starts here in the dean's office, and I am very proud of the results
I was drawn to biology because it helped to explain so many things that you just kind of take for granted
In the fall you've seen that the leaves have changed colors
Why did that happen well?
biology can tell you exactly why that happened I
I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis when I was 18 months old I
Think that that did feed into
Ultimately my interest in how things work how they're put together and operate
It's always been impressive rather than
disenchanting
I am a graduate student studying immunology
We study a process that is really important for driving certain kinds of asthma
and we hope that
Through our work. We can develop a drug that helps treat patients that have this kind of asthma
My mentor is Dr. Laurie Glimcher
I join her lab back at Harvard University and when she became Dean of Wilde Cornell Medical College. I moved down to join her
Friday I'm going to go have a meeting with Laurie to discuss the paper. We're about to submit for publication
Basically, I need to submit this paper to graduate. It's been stressful for about a year now, but we're finally at the
culmination of everything
The goal is always to try to publish in the best tier of journal, so we're aiming high
Sometimes you get too deep and what you're doing and you can't think clearly anymore
And you're just so
Deeply invested and stuck in your thought that was perfect and beautiful and totally was not real
Sometimes you feel very overwhelmed with all of the things you have to get done
Lori just says yes, you can you can do this
She has this incredible ability
To convince you that you can do whatever it is that you feel is
Impossible so that really no other cell populations are messed up next anyone slicing occurs and in which the phenotype
Starts to manifest right so we've we've locked down on wearing it. It's yeah
It's kind of sustained at this very high level till it's finally mature
She's gonna help you oh, that's great. She's helping she's on my committee. It's just very smooth. She got her PhD
She beat me okay
That was where the problem happens. Yeah, but if you look at GM Peas
I don't think that my experience with Laurie is ever really gonna leave my consciousness and
20 years from now her influence will be there
She asks about my boyfriend and how things are going
Back when he lived in Boston she would occasionally just say so when's he moving down
She always thinks that the conversation is really
Not only equal, but sometimes even edging towards
female centric
This is where all of the ideas about how to do science how to approach science
how to approach life really
Are all ingrained and they become more concrete?
Her influence on me cannot be overstated
Multiple parallel tracks of my life are coming together right now in a positive way my boyfriend just moved down
I'm about to graduate for my ph.d program
So we have about a year and a half left to enjoy New York and then
the future is
Completely open I've been it good job
But we're both really excited to tackle