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I am about to start my M2 year, and I spent my summer in a rotation that I really liked. The PI understands that I can't be there forever and there is a project that we both think I can probably start to get good results on in less than a year, so we will be able to tell if we need to completely change directions fairly early. The one downside, for me, is that it is classical bench research.
I guess my question is, will doing a bench science thesis make it harder to get into translational/clinical research later?
I want my eventual career to involve patients in my research. Should I find a lab doing that now for my PhD, or is it okay to spend my PhD characterizing proteins? Also, this lab researches infections diseases, which is what I want to study as my clinical specialty. All of the translational medicine research at my school seems to be cancer or neurologically related. Does topic matter? Would research in these fields help me by being transational/clinical in nature even if they have nothing to do with infectious diseases?
Thanks for the advice.
I guess my question is, will doing a bench science thesis make it harder to get into translational/clinical research later?
I want my eventual career to involve patients in my research. Should I find a lab doing that now for my PhD, or is it okay to spend my PhD characterizing proteins? Also, this lab researches infections diseases, which is what I want to study as my clinical specialty. All of the translational medicine research at my school seems to be cancer or neurologically related. Does topic matter? Would research in these fields help me by being transational/clinical in nature even if they have nothing to do with infectious diseases?
Thanks for the advice.