I promptly fell in love with scientific research and soon had assigned myself, as a major vocation, the task of elucidating the mechanism of action of the antidiabetic hormone.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I also found out that I liked biochemical research and that I could do it.
I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.
I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD.
I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.
By then, I was making the slow transition from classical biochemistry to molecular biology and becoming increasingly preoccupied with how genes act and how proteins are made.
At the time I finished high school, I was determined to study biology, deeply convinced to eventually be a researcher.
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.