1. My life as a researcher. Fact or Fiction. How did I get here?
Biomedical Research
My life as a researcher.
Fact or Fiction.
How did I get here?
Introduce,
Who has alr decided that you wanna do research? Why?
What do you think is research all about?

2. What is Biomedical Research?
Investigation of the biological processes in healthy and diseased individuals in order to find ways to improve the prevention and treatment human diseases.
Impove the quality of life with new discoveries

3. My life as a researcher Part I:
My own experience and may not be the case across the board.

4. Project-based experiments. . .
Cells (In vitro)
Animals (in vivo)
Humans (clinical trials)
FDA approved
Experiment A B C
1) What do we do everyday? We don’t have a daily or weekly routine.
2) We do things based on projects and within each projects are experiments.
3) Hierarchy of scientific research

5. Malaria
Aim, method, results

6. Bio-Imaging
Aim, method, results,

7. Writing papers Presentations Teaching
Writing papers: report of your findings, reviewed by a panel of specialist in the field, also a reflection of how well your research is.
Presentations: faster way of exposing to others what you’ve found, Poster, oral, conferences, funding agencies, networking
Teaching: Once in a while you need to teach students, supervise them.
Teaching

8. Part II:
Fact or Fiction?

9. FICTION (I)
Being a researcher means I will be able to change the world quickly.
FACTs
Most, if not all, scientific discoveries involve a team or a few teams of people working together.
Having international collaborations are common.
Your research is but a small piece of a much bigger puzzle.
Research is very time consuming.

10. FICTION (II)
Once a particular scientific discovery is made, stop working on it, find something else to research on.
FACTs
Different research groups can have different points of view
There is no one finding to rule them all: Differing opinions do exist eg. cancer stem cells

11. FICTION (III)
Scientists are so smart that know exactly what they are doing.
FACTs
More often than not, they do not know whether what they are doing will work.
Trial and error.
They are doing Research, not Re-Search.

12. Salary in the research field
Time = Work Done
Power
Money = Work Done
Knowledge
Share
Roughly how m
Doing it for the money

13. Part III:
How did I get here?

14. Education Secondary School Junior College Interest in Biology but…
Biology was not offered
Junior College
Still had interest in Biology but…
Did Physics and Chemistry

15. University Graduate studies
Pursued Life Sciences under the Faculty Science.
First formal education in Biology.
Graduate studies
Optional unless…
You want to determine your own direction of research

16. In a nutshell: Research or not, take your time to decide,
Go find out more, this field is really wide.
Interest and passion, not money should be your guide.
When you’re certain this is for you, do everything it takes, to get you inside.
Good Luck!

17. Questions?