Careers: Biology was always my passion! (V0187)
Love of biology progressed into a passion for studying immunology for Joanna Kirman. She is now searching for treatments for tuberculosis at the Malaghan Institute in Auckland.
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Love of biology progressed into a passion for studying immunology for Joanna Kirman. She is now searching for treatments for tuberculosis at the Malaghan Institute in Auckland. This clip was produced in conjunction with NZBio.
Transcript
Joanna Kirman (Malaghan Institute): I can’t say at high school I ever would have thought that years down the track I would have been working on tuberculosis of all diseases. I’ve always really, really enjoyed biology; loved it through school, loved animals, loved nature and those types of things.
And it just became a natural progression. As I was studying at university, I just took courses that I was really interested in because I tended to do better in them. And I ended up working in immunology, which was something I felt very passionate about, and that was important to me as well. I couldn’t….you know, it’s such a hard slog sometimes, you couldn’t do it unless you felt really excited about what the end result would be.
Metadata
- Published:
- 16 November 2007
- Copyright:
- The University of Waikato
