Future plans:

     Now that I'm into my second year of graduate school and have begun working on my research it has become evident that I will not be able to finish my thesis work and have it defended by May of 2007, so in all likelihood I will graduate either in December of 2007 (or in May of 2008 if I decide to run more control experiements in order to submit my thesis for publication in a peer-reviewed journal). I am not certain as to what exactly I will get into when I graduate from Villanova, but one area that has been suggested to me by the Villanova Biology Department chairman is pharmacology.

     Whether I end up doing research in the field of Cell & Molecular Biology or in Pharmacology, I hope my research will significantly contribute in the ongoing endeavors to find the cure for cancer or HIV so that I can help alleviate human suffering on this planet. But even if I don't make any discovery warranting my receiving a Nobel Prize I still hope to make some contribution to biomedical science and I expect to earn a decent living doing so.