Lisa Haile always liked biology. So she majored in the subject in college and then headed off to Georgetown University to earn her PhD in cell and molecular biology. While knee-deep in her research on cancer, however, her enthusiasm started to wane. The science was still very exciting and interesting to her, but there were other aspects that she didn’t enjoy.
“I was starting to wonder if I actually wanted to be a bench scientist for the rest of my life,” she recalls. She didn’t like the tediousness of the work, having to repeat experiments multiple times and seeing meaningful results only every 6 months. “But I had made such a commitment at that point. I decided I needed to keep going.”
Opinion: Encourage Alternatives
She finished her PhD and started a postdoc at the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation ...
