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I trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

I just was mesmerized by all of this life everywhere I looked. And so I wanted to be a marine biologist.

I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist.

I knew I wanted to be a scientist. Which kind of scientist was the question.

At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.

I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.