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I come from a pretty scientific family. My sister is a neurologist and my brother is an engineer.

I think I was a born scientist.

I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.

From an early age, I knew I would become a scientist. It may have been my brother Sam's doing. He interested me in the laws of falling bodies when I was ten and helped my father equip a basement chemistry lab for me when I was fifteen. I became skilled in the synthesis of selenium halides.

I was trained as a neurologist, and then I went into the theater, and if you're brought up to think of yourself as a biological scientist of some sort, pretty well everything else seems frivolous by comparison.

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.

From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.

I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.