Biomedical Science Personal Statement

My inspiration to study biomedical sciences as bachelor degree came from my responsibilities that I placed on my shoulders toward my father, who was diabetic for more than 20 years. I still recall when my father used to call me and tell me "Elham bring me the sugar medicine and oh don't forget to break half of it, I like to take half only". Although the doctor prescribes the right regimens, he insisted on taking the medication on his way. He was always defensive toward his health when it comes to his medication. After a while he started having problems with his teeth, which kept falling on after the other. This was a consequence of uncontrolled sugar levels; doctor said. He had to travel to Yemen to get his teeth fixed and things were

This was a benefit to me in order to start taking biomedical science related courses soon after. I start to swim the science field gradually by taking basic science courses like : organic chemistry , biochemistry and biology. My pleasure was poster projects that were asked by the professor, because it allowed me to conduct research about the subject and build it from scratch. After one year of pre-requisite courses, I started the major courses. I still remember the anatomy course were I used to memorize all the weird muscle name and then practice at home. My brother was so fit ,so I help me to memorize muscle names on his chest. Living as biomedical student for 5 years enabled me gain self-confident and good relationship with my professors and

This training allowed me to figure out which field I am in to the most. I realized that the study and DNA wide usage was my passion apparently. Soon after the training I got hired as Laboratory technologist at Hamad Medical Corporation in Molecular Genetic laboratory & premarital screening .This job allowed me to gain profound knowledge in different patient samples and diagnosis of genetic disease like: sickle cell anemia, Wilson disease and hereditary breast cancer. Back in collage there was less focus on how genetic disease and how it can correlate to the phenotypic picture of the patient. I have been always been passionate to correlate clinical information provided in patient request form with the genetic outcome of the test. I remember there was a patient referred to molecular testing because of gastrointestinal complication for long time and high levels of copper persistently. The physician asked for Wilson full gene sequencing test to be done .After putting the exons strands together, I got the answer for the question that kept coming to my mind during Clinical Chemistry bachelor course. The answer was eventually a single base pair change in ATP7B gene led to change in the protein responsible of maintaining copper hemostasis in the body which led to the deposition of copper inside different organs. This case