The MRES Program in Medical Device Design and Entrepreneurship at the XXXX University in London is my first choice for graduate school because of my profound admiration for your curriculum and the fact that I feel that I am the best fit for your program for a variety of reasons, including the location, taking advantage of the great resources of one of the world’s leading cities in every way, technology, science, culture, history, etc. A young Chinese woman entirely in love with life, biology, medicine, and health care, and a great lover of all things natural, I seek harmony and the avoidance of intrusion. I look forward to giving my professional life to designing medical devices that prolong and enhance the quality of human life. After gaining sufficient experience in my field working for corporations at the forefront of development in this area, I look forward to working with increasing independence.
I was born and raised on the outskirts of my city in China, in an area with lush, landscaped greenery, immersed in nursery gardens nestled among mountains, always in search of the real me, as part of rather than removed from nature. When I learned about the homologous genes of living things, I was amazed, curious, and already set on a course toward the intense study of Biology. I knew that my most intense happiness and fulfillment could only be attained by reaching out and standing on the shoulders of the many great thinkers in Biology that have come before me in history. I love this sense of accumulated knowledge, making life at once more accessible and more powerful, with voluminous choices and opportunities, enabling me to see the starry sky of biology at its height.
I am troubled by what I see as a certain asynchrony between the development of biological knowledge on the one hand and its application on the other. Thus, I seek to contribute to building a bridge between the Biological Sciences and the ‘real’ world, particularly concerning my area of interest, the biology of cell development. My studies have given me a comprehensive understanding of Biotechnology, especially concerning microorganisms, plants, and animals - problem-solving, data recording, and phenomenon observation. Vb.NET and R Programming Language taught me how to retrieve information, apply databases and improve efficiency. My dedication to real-world issues was demonstrated as an undergraduate student at the University of Birmingham with my study of the negative impact of land-use changes on terrestrial biodiversity. By 2016, I spent long hours in Professor Liang’s lab doing microbiology research, colony counts and configurations of nutrient solutions, etc., later studying the signal transduction mechanisms of plant hormones.
This past summer, I completed an internship in Dr. XXXX’s lab at the University of XXXX, focusing on regulating cell death and tissue growth control. After joining the lab, I first read many materials to familiarize myself with the project background. I then began to learn the operational techniques for larval imaginal disc dissection and fixation, investigating the potential roles of genes in the apoptosis-induced proliferation pathways relevant for specific gene modifications, enhancing my understanding of immunohistochemistry and microscopy and image processing. I became especially interested in cancer during this internship. I rose to the challenge of performing subtle, direct operations on drosophila's larva under a microscope, soon beginning to culture fly stocks to get lines with certain genetic modifications for the next step of fly scoring and the ey> hid-p35 essay. In this way, I learned immunohistochemistry and microscopy, and image processing. At last, I made a summary and report of the experimental stage results, conducted data analysis (excel), processed the data, and displayed it intuitively with charts.
Attending lectures such as the 3rd Midlands Drosophila Meeting and the 13th International Symposium on Rice Functional Genomics enabled me to grasp the big picture and the importance of the latest achievements in my field. By completing your program, I hope to devote myself to a long lifetime of research into developing biological products and medical devices that improve and prolong the quality of life - capitalizing on my research expertise and entrepreneurial abilities.
I especially look forward to collaboration in the future with the Asian Emerging Market Innovative Medicine team set up in AstraZeneca, Shanghai, as I am confident that this will help me to continue to broaden my knowledge base concerning drug candidate development and concept verification, learning as much as I can throughout my professional life about potential scientific mechanisms of the most common diseases, particularly those having a significant impact on China.
Master Medical Device Design and Entrepreneurship