Nitroglycerin Personal Statement

Personal Statement

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well-used brings happy death”, quoted from Leonardo da Vinci’s will, is my motto since I entered the Second Military Medical University. His remark always reminds me to live life to the fullest and engage in basic medical research which has fascinated me since I was a little child, my father, a molecular biologist, often brought me to his laboratory and I was impressed by what he’s doing which inspired my curiosity in science. As a director of the department, my father often stayed late at night doing experiments, I am always touched by my father’s passion in scientific research. It was in my first year in medical school, I realized that excellent doctors should be the ones

At that moment, I was amazed by this miracle drug and was wondering what I can do to save lives. I did lots of research on nitroglycerin and understood that it was the nitric oxide that converted from nitroglycerin that saved his life. I am very curious if other gases have similar functions. Luckily, I found Dr. Xuejun Sun, a professor from my school who was conducting medical gas research for a long time. I contacted him and became a research assistant in his

In addition, I won the First Place in the 2015 Basic Medicine Papers Contest for College Students of Second Military Medical University and the Second Place in the Fourth National Undergraduates’ Innovation Forum & Experimental Design Contest in Basic Medical Science. It is worthy to point out that I mentored e Li, a senior student in the group, to complete his own projects and published several articles as a corresponding