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Παρασκευή 7 Ιουνίου 2013

Embracing the magic of science


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Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer

This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates.
All her life, Jennifer Cloutier ’13 wanted to understand how things work.
“When you’re a kid, basic mechanisms like household appliances can seem magical,” she said, explaining her fascination with science. “I wanted to understand and explain that magic.”
Cloutier’s curiosity has long since evolved from kitchen items to stem cells. As an undergraduate researcher in Professor Konrad Hochedlinger’s lab with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, she takes adult skin cells from mice, infects them with viruses to express certain proteins, and then examines how those proteins prompt the cells to reprogram or dedifferentiate into stem cells. “I study why that happens, how we can improve the process, and how we can make it safer for any future therapeutics,” she said....[...]
Now accepted into Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, an M.D. initiative that bridges scientific research and medical practice, Cloutier said she hopes one day to be a principal investigator with her own lab, seeing a small group of patients relevant to her research.
“Harvard’s changed me a lot,” she said. “I signed up wanting to be challenged. I just wanted to see what I could do, and I feel fortunate and astounded to have the opportunity to find out.”


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