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...small lab: one professor, one post-doctoral candidate, one technician, and one Se-jin. A new home. "When you're a grad student it's important to be in the mainstream, to be in a high powered lab," he notes. "When you're an undergrad, it's important to get into a lab where the head person cares about you, where they are supportive and encouraging. My professor never closed his office door. He was constantly wandering about the lab. I was immediately a part of the work, which is more important than being with a name professor." Words...
Even with all the technical disappointments, with the contaminated experiments, with the mysterious dying cells, even with the super-sensitive equipment that must be pampered like an old Buick, the mathematician's son has had some fun. Basic research is time consuming, lonely, chancy, and incredibly discouraging. But Se-jin entered it as if slipping into a warm bath...
Even if it's part time. This year, Se-jin roamed the country for medical school interviews. Meanwhile, he played teaching fellow in Biochem 10, the introductory Biochemistry course, while spending every spare moment in the lab. "I did absolutely zero work in other courses," he laughs. But he did enough to get accepted at Johns Hopkins Medical school where he will pursue both an MD and a Ph.D. His research will continue on viruses, this time animal tumor viruses, under the direction of Dr. Dan Nathans, 1976 Nobel Laureate. That's seven more years of school, including summers...
...school when he wants to work in a lab? "I think medical school has more to offer than just teaching you to practice medicine. My education there will contribute to the type of researcher I am," he comments. As part of his MD-Ph.D program at Hopkins, Se-jin will be exempt from tuition in addition to receiving a $5,000 stipend each year...
...Regulate their P2 Helpers." He studied the relationship between two types of viruses where one helps the other to survive when they attack the same cell. How one helps the other, which genes are necessary for functions, and these are controlled: those are the compelling problems. And Se-jin waxes eloquent when listing his experiments and results--like a child sharing newly-learned multiplication tables...