-: One of the things that drives me the most
is the discovery part.
I find it's very satisfying
to discover something new,
to stumble upon an idea
that no one else has had before
to generate data that you're the only person
on Earth who has seen that.
I think it's very exhilarating
but one thing that I did not expect
was to see the impact
of my mentorship on students who work with me now.
To see someone coming to the lab
in the very beginning stages of starting
to do scientific research
and then within a few months,
you see the independence that that person
has gone on to develop, it's just amazing
and it's not something that I ever imagined,
I mean, I guess I have not been a mentor before
but now seeing that and seeing my people
go on to achieve some independence
has been very rewarding, so.
I just hope we're working on the right problems.
I would say I always worry about,
I would not want for us to make a discovery
and before we can put that to good use
to realize that it's no longer relevant,
so I often worry about whether or not we're picking
the right problems,
whether we're asking the right questions.
Many times I think I also wonder
if we're just limited
by the tools we have and the technology that exists
and maybe that's why we're asking these questions
and working on these problems
but I hope that's not the case, and so.