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At a very young age, Gary Cantor, Durham researcher, wanted a career in medicine, as a surgeon. Why? Because he was fascinated with medicine and surgeons looked the coolest to a little boy in Coral Springs, Florida, which is where he was born and raised. While that dream would change when he entered his teen years, Gary Cantor knew that he wanted a career in the medical field. He was just 13 when Gary Cantor’s medical dream experienced something of a shift. He happened to see a video of Dr. Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist. That video and his subsequent correspondence with Dr. DeGrey convinced Gary that his future was in medical research. By unlocking the secrets of the human genome, he and other researchers could create life expectancies up to, and possibly exceeding, 1,000 years. He wanted to get into medical research so much that he studied biology at the University of Florida and became a medical researcher as soon as he could. He worked in his first research lab while still a teen. One sumner, he even went to San Francisco, to work as an intern for Genentech. Working in their Translational Oncology Department, Gary Cantor was part of a critical research team looking into a groundbreaking treatment for breast cancer. After Florida, Gary Cantor made Durham his home, when he 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. It’s hard to believe he is still just 26 because Gary Cantor, Durham researcher, is now a Ph.D. candidate. He believes his medical research career is just beginning. He has a long way to go. Comments are closed.
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