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Gary Cantor studied biology at the University of Florida and he became a medical researcher early on. He started working with his first lab when he was still a teenager. While he studied at the University of Florida, he went to San Francisco for four months, where he worked as an intern for Genentech in their Translational Oncology department, where he worked on a very important treatment for breast cancer.
All of this seems natural looking back. Even as a young boy in Coral Springs, Florida, where he was born and raised, Gary Cantor wanted a career in medicine. At first, he used to watch a medical reality show on TV and admired the doctors who worked so hard to save people's lives and it made him realize that he wanted to do the same thing when he grew up. Gary Cantor's dream of being a great surgeon took a bit of a shift when he was 13, however, when he saw a YouTube video of Dr. Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist who believed that medical research could create life expectancies of as much as 1,000 years. He corresponded with Dr. de Grey and learned that he wanted to do such research. He now sees the human body as an advanced computer and believes that anyone with knowledge of its instruction manual (genome), can possibly make the computer run forever. After completing his studies at Florida, Cantor was accepted into the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program (BBSP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also joined the university's Genetics and Molecular Biology Department. Still only 26 and a Ph.D. candidate, Gary Cantor is just starting to move medical science forward. Comments are closed.
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