Josh

Josh:

Undergraduate Researcher

Lammerding Lab

How has your life changed since you started cancer research?

“I started [doing research] in the spring semester of my junior year, so like a year and a couple of months ago. Since then, I would say that my life has changed a lot because I went from not knowing what I wanted to do after graduating to now, where I am accepted to graduate school and will be going there.”

Do you have a personal connection to your research?

“My grandma had breast cancer…my dad had lymphoma. Both of them survived it fortunately. But I never met my maternal grandfather because he died of a glioma, which is brain cancer.”

What’s the most rewarding thing about your research?

“I wanted to be a biomedical engineering major when I was in high school. And it’s nice to not just study things in classes and do equations but actually do something outside of class. So I would say it’s rewarding in that aspect.”