I am currently a senior at BASIS Scottsdale and this is my blog to document my time interning at Dr. Atul Lalani's office near Shea hospital in Scottsdale, AZ. I like listening to music, watching movies, taking long walks on the beach, and writing blog posts. So, at any time during reading my blog posts, please feel free to comment any amazing movies you would like me to watch or albums for me to listen to. I listen to all kinds of music except for country, so, if you have a country album you would like to suggest, please keep it to yourself and the world will be a better place for it.
The high school where I have spent my past four years is BASIS Scottsdale. BASIS is actually the reason for the creation of this blog in the first place, because, instead of attending school in the third trimester of our senior year, all of the seniors take part in senior projects that they have designed to carry out research in fields that they are interested in. My senior research project, as you can tell from the title of this blog, is named Genes: The Final Frontier. The project involves me interning at an office of endocrinology to input data taken from the national First Vitals study. This study is under the subject of pharmacogenomics and is integral to the development of the field of health care in the years to come. The First Vitals study involves analyzing the genetic sequence of several patients to try to determine the best drug to use to treat those individuals' illness and limiting the amount of negative side effects that their treatments give them. The idea is that health care needs to transition from the previous mindset that one medication with work for everyone equally to the mindset that we need to take into account everyone's genetic code to accurately give them a treatment that will work best for them.
So, I hope that I have interested you in my project and you will continue to come back and see all of the new, exciting developments in my life. If you have any further questions, please leave them in the comments section or feel free to contact me through my email designated on the right side of this blog. Thank you for taking the time to read this and have a nice day!
