• Question: what interested you to working as you are today?

    Asked by neck449tag on 10 Feb 2022.
    • Photo: Chris Budd

      Chris Budd answered on 10 Feb 2022:

      It was the Apollo Moon Landings in the 1960-70s

    • Photo: Valerie Vancollie

      Valerie Vancollie answered on 10 Feb 2022:

      I first became interested in pandemic level outbreaks with the book “Outbreak”, but it didn’t quite lead me to looking into a job in the field as I wasn’t quite interested in medicine and what I do didn’t yet exist as a possibility as genome sequencing wasn’t really a thing back then yet. So I’ve come back to this interest as the technology has developed.

    • Photo: Melanie Krause

      Melanie Krause answered on 13 Feb 2022:

      Hi 🙂
      My originally fascination for science started when I was 12/13. I read a book about medicine and in that it was written that 100 years scientists would have found cures for all diseases known today and I thought ‘Wow that’s so cool, I want to be a part of this!’
      Now that I have studied science I’m pretty sure that book was too optimistic, but I still think the thought of helping to understand and fight diseases is pretty amazing 🙂
      And mostly I was interested in viruses because they can be so efficiently fought with vaccines to point where we even eradicated one of the worst ever: smallpox

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