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Using mentors and family to guide my trajectory to engineering
By Andrew Ramirez, Ph.D. Scientists travel many different paths—sometimes quite circuitous—before reaching their destinations, which are not always final. What’s your story and what takeaways might help others? My story is one that I could have never predicted. As a child of Mexican immigrants, I had no idea of what I wanted to pursue for…
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Using mentors and family to guide my trajectory to engineering
By Andrew Ramirez, Ph.D. Scientists travel many different paths—sometimes quite circuitous—before reaching their destinations, which are not always final. What’s your story and what takeaways might help others? My story is one that I could have never predicted. As a child of Mexican immigrants, I had no idea of what I wanted to pursue for…
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Adjusting to new laboratories, scientific fields, and academic/social cultures.
By Andrew Ramirez, Ph.D. As scientists, we move around a lot. Insights from scientists who have navigated these waters and what important lessons they took away. I am a current postdoctoral researcher investigating resistance to cancer immunotherapies using machine learning methods. This is my 6th position in a research setting as chemical engineering and bioengineer.…