Passion in science
is an exploration of the unknown
passion science is giving back and and making a difference in the world
passion in science is understanding the human condition
passion in science is what gives purpose to my life
it's everything
I broke my neck playing flag football when I was 19
I'm the only tenured chemist at a research university
that has gone through undergraduate and graduate identified as
having a disability
there was kinda no one else out there to assume a leadership position
and I realized that more and more this was what was keeping me awake at night
it's like how do I get these students into the lab how do I get their careers going
my mother started to lose her sight
due to early onset Alzheimer's disease and I could no longer share
some of my work with her
I was able to realize my
idea of 3d printing objects bringing microscopy to a group of people who've
never had that experience before
my training is in ancient DNA
if you can do something from a seventy thousand year old bison
can you possibly look at this fourteen-year-old bone because we need
to identify this person
that died in a complex situation and so the more I did that
the more interesting and enriched I felt
so we made a lot of recommendations and the suicide rate has come down
in active duty. There are still Guard and Reserve forces that are struggling and there are still a lot
a lot of people that
don't know where to go to get help.
It frustrates me greatly to see people profiling a piece of lung
because I mean they're like many many different cell types in the lungs
the reason I chose lung cancer to work on is because there's such in need
Women's Foundations get passionate about funding breast cancer research or ovarian
cancer research
but they're more women dying of lung cancer than of any of those cancers
you can go and return it back to
the shipper kinda like what NEB does with their return program
what I've done is help set up
a Styrofoam reuse and recycling program we've collected
a little under 1000 pounds of the stuff a month
we're now working to not make our vaccines in isolation
but with countries that don't have capacity for making vaccines and
teaching them how to make vaccines
it's nice to know there are others out there that feel the same way I do
which is making it one's life work to take Science and apply it
to something that goes beyond writing the paper or writing the grant
from the very beginning New England Biolabs has embraced the core values
scientific pursuit environmental stewardship humanitarian efforts
and artistic expression and those core values are ingrained in our culture
so it just felt right to have an awards ceremony to recognize it on our
people
that are our peers in our industry but also share our similar philosophy
when you mention NEB people smile it's a unique
company that seems to have a really really
clear vision of what their role is
in promoting science
you forget that there are companies and people out there
that really really want to do good and do well
you know and in it can be done