- Application Question: Discuss your present academic Focus. What interests you most about chemistry?
- Directions: This essay should contain a minimum of 250 words and the document should be double spaced and uploaded as a PDF attachment.
- It is for admissions into an internship at an excellent university. I am a junior in high school.
“In the US, cancer is the leading cause of death in midlife and may soon become the leading cause of death overall as the number of people diagnosed with and dying from cancer continues to increase (1,2)” https://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2021/21_0006.htm Chemists transform the world. Cancer is projected to affect ???? of the worldwide population and chemistry plays a central role in the etiology and prevention of the most prevalent types of human cancer. In the past chemistry and cancer did not intersect. Chemists were not welcome in the cancer research community. Today, however, chemists are transforming the cancer field through transdisciplinary science. Researchers are finding the old adage that cancer comes from genetics no longer holds true. This transdisciplinary research pays off dividends. Chemical biology can answer questions that genetics cannot. Cutting-edge research combines the disciplines of chemistry, biology, and physics to manipulate biological systems into healthier living cells. https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/biological-sciences-articles/at-the-interface-of-chemistry-and-cancer
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Specifically would like to study nanoparticle platforms for targeting the delivery of chemotherapeutics to enhance radiotherapy and immunotherapy. I am particularly interested in nanoparticle platforms for targeted delivery of chemotherapeutics to enhance radiotherapy and immunotherapy. I believe that nanoparticle platforms that offer prolonged stability in circulation, the capacity to carry large therapeutics and have the ability to directly target cancer cells, including those that are cancer-resistant are the way of the future. https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/biological-sciences-articles/at-the-interface-of-chemistry-and-cancer THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO DO. I am referring to Dr. Lim’s research (U of Chicago) but I do not want to say that because the head of the department (Pantano) for this internship is interested in a similar but a bit different subject. According to the website for the internship, “Dr. Pantano has been been a site-director of the Welch Foundation Summer Scholar Program since 1997. He is an affiliate of the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute and a principal of the UT-Dallas Bionanosciences Group. His research goals include elucidating the cellular response and fate of carbon nanotubes and advancing the diagnostic and therapeutic applications of carbon nanotubes. His group’s areas of expertise include the characterization of nanomaterials, the reproducible preparation of purified nanotube samples, the assessment of potential nanomaterial cytotoxicity, and the development of label-free measurement of nanotubes inside living cells and tissue.”.https://sites.cns.utexas.edu/wssp/who-we-are
So, in the end, I would like to participate in bridging the gap between the interdisciplinary by bringing chemistry to the forefront xxx approaches to save lives. I like anything that involves cancer and nanoparticle platforms for chemotherapeutic interventions.
• Also, my mom has breast cancer which led me to be interested in this topic but I do not know whether to say that.
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