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From the time he was a young boy in Coral Springs, Florida, and Gary Cantor was fascinated by “Trauma: Life in the ER,” a medical TV reality show, he knew medicine was a calling. At first, he wanted to be a surgeon because they seemed to be the coolest doctors in any hospital. However, that dream changed when he was searching YouTube and came upon a video from Dr. Aubrey de Grey. Dr. de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist, and he seems certain that medical research could create life expectancies as high as 1,000 years.
For a while, Gary Cantor conducted a correspondence with Dr. de Grey and decided that medical research was the field. When the time came, he studied biology at the University of Florida and became a medical researcher early on, working in his first lab while he was still just a teenager. He also completed a four-month internship with Genentech, in their Translational Oncology department in San Francisco, where he worked with a research team that was working on a very important treatment for breast cancer. Following his studies at the University of Florida, Cantor was accepted into the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program (BBSP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which was an exciting development for him. There, he also joined the university's Genetics and Molecular Biology Department. That is why, these days, as far as he is concerned, to Gary Cantor, Durham is home. Currently a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at the tender age of 26, Gary is likely to be moving medical science forward for decades to come. Comments are closed.
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