Hardik Rao Character Analysis

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Hardik Rao is the character that I chose for "The Lab." He came to this laboratory as an undergraduate student and had been working here for his post-docs. His work revolved around a protein called Caveolin 3, a protein that has been emphasized from previous research studies to be important in insulin signaling. It had been four years of post-docs, Hardik thought he would know everything, but sometime he was just not sure about the experimental data. He could ask his PI, Dr. Hutchins, for advice, but Dr. Hutchins had a lot of things on his plate, and he seemed to favor another grad student that had been producing outstanding results in the laboratory, Greg Anderson. Hardik wanted to make some good results to satisfy Dr. Hutchins' expectation as well as getting his credentials so he could go back to his home country in India. However, things just seemed to not turn out in a good way with Greg constantly getting publication on his results. Moreover, Hardik's wife, Neha, was pregnant, and she was disappointed with the fact that Hardik spend more time with his …show more content…

In addition, the online training not only presented the point of views of the students and everyone in the laboratory, but also someone that was a non-scientist's point of view in the case, such as Hardik's wife, Neha, on the case of the falsifying data. This gave more suggestions and information to what a character should do, and each choice that a character made was very well-played. Each scenario really made me think about the next choice I have to pick to be able to solve the problem ethically while maintaining the integrity as a

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