• Question: What influenced/encouradged you to pick your particular field to study?

    Asked by rosiejoy123 to Jen, Jill, Mel, Phil, Stef on 17 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Jennifer Paxton

      Jennifer Paxton answered on 17 Mar 2013:

      Hmmm….. Good question! It just sort if happened! I loved studying the parts of the human body then I moved onto how we could build things to replace bits when things went wrong! I really liked that tissue engineering was relatively new too, so there was a lot I could learn.

    • Photo: Melissa Brereton

      Melissa Brereton answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      I really enjoyed biology at school and when I started my A level biology, I really loved learning how the body works so decided to study it at university. During the first year of my degree we studied a broad range of biology topics including plants, cells, genetics but I particularly enjoyed learning how drugs work. I always wanted to know why when you had a headache, the paracetamol tablet knew exactly how to get to your head and stop it from hurting.

    • Photo: Stefan Piatek

      Stefan Piatek answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      I really liked things that were small and found the fighter cells (or immune cells) of the body fascinating. There are loads of different type of them and they all have different roles so it’s like learning what each animal does in an ecosystem. From thereon I guess it was mostly luckily being able to do things I really loved and getting paid for it!

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