• Question: what inspired you to become a scientist?

    Asked by stephenson to Barbara on 13 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Barbara Guinn

      Barbara Guinn answered on 13 Jun 2011:

      I wanted to be a medical doctor and I didn’t get good enough grades to go to medical school when doing my A’levels. I remembered I really liked genetics and so went to the University of Aberystwyth in West Wales to study genetics. I knew I liked human genetics the most and so when I looked at a few different PhD projects I choose the one on leukaemia. I love being a scientist and am glad I did genetics at University. Sometimes life doesn’t always work out the way you first plan but as long as your Plan B is fun, then that’s cool too.

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