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I am most interested in research and development
development for pharmaceutical companies,
maybe improving drug effectiveness
and the way drugs work.
That's what bioscience does
improves products that exist or develop new products.
I came to Gwinnett Tech because I wanted to me a nurse.
and I didn't get into the LPN (nursing) program
I saw a sign up for bioscience and I became interested
and took the seminar and was very interested
in learning about the DNA, the promoters
it was very exciting and very cool.
I think bioscience is a huge field,
you can enrich lives in many ways
through drug development, making a product better
For instance, there's a product called Prylosec
out on the market, it's for acid reflux
you just change a methol group in the Prylosec
make it Nexium, and it's a better drug
It stays in your blood system longer
just by changing one little thing.
In the lab, when I'm in class
I don't know how I'm going to use this
so I was sent out to an internship
and we worked with micro-plates
and I could completely see how you would use it in industry
and it makes it very interesting to work in the lab
and know exactly what you're learning it for.
And now where I'm working, they do a lot of PCR
tissue harvesting in the lab
That's actually one of the first questions
they asked me in my interview, "do you know what PCR is?"
and it was very cool to be able to
tell them that I learned it here.
The most valuable thing I find here at Gwinnett Tech
would probably be the professors.
They know a lot about their field,
they know a lot of things that are not in their field
they answer all kinds of questions from us
and put up with our questions!
The equipment at Gwinnett Tech is
probably more up to date than it is in the industry.
For instance, we have a centrifuge
in the classroom that stops by itself.
In the industry, you have to push the brake on
it and it stops slowly.
We have to be creative in everything that we do.
Right now in my laboratory methods class
we are isolating a protein and we don't have a protocol
for that so we have to come up with a way
to isolate the protein
Basically, we get a transformed GFP
which is a green florescent protein
and we have to find a way to isolate the protein
without a professor telling us how to do it.
We have used creative ways to find out how to do this.
My ideal job would be working in a drug company
trying to improve drugs that are out there,
maybe for cancer patients, maybe working for Genitech
which is a very big biotech company
That's what I want to do, is help people get well.
I chose Gwinnett Tech because it's very flexible.
I still work my full-time job
and come to classes at night.
And classes are also in the afternoon
and the evening so I can go to work in the morning and work part-time
and the cost is very good.
I've enjoyed it here.
It's been a lot more than I ever thought it would be
The experience in the lab
is something you can't compare to many schools.
Gwinnett Tech is preparing me in my goals
my ultimate goal is to probably work in a
a research and development company
for a pharmaceutical company.
Gwinnett Tech is preparing me by giving me
hands-on experience in the lab,
having up-to-date equipment.
actually the centrifuges here in class
class are better than they are in the industry.
class are better than they are in the industry.
My career goals consist of working
in research and development
for a pharmaceutical firm. and Gwinnett Tech is preparing me
by having up to date equipment,
and hands on activity.