Med School Interview Part I

• -Myriad of opportunities available (discovery in research, teaching, clinical work, numerous different fields to go into)
• - Fascination with the human body
• - Integration of hard science with meaningful
• interpersonal interaction
• - Hands-on, fast-paced
• -  Opportunity to make positive impact on others that’s extremely meaningful

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(1) Goal: create ex vivo system to predict liver metastases from colorectal cancer using biomatrices to promote personalized care

• (2) Purpose: limit severity of primary tumor metasis by predicting and
• pretreating the predicted sites of metastasis. 

(3) Isolation and preservation of biomatrix scaffolds gently without destroying tissue-specific characteristics that best mimics human tissue.

Biomatrix scaffold - tissue extract enriched in extracellular components that has been completely decellularized; tissue-specific NOT species-specific. Preserves collagens, matrix components, and soluble signals (i.e., growth factors and cytokines).