{"id":4927,"date":"2016-06-10T13:42:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T17:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:49","slug":"biology-grad-hopes-help-others-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2016\/biology-grad-hopes-help-others-cancer-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Grad Hopes to Help Others Through Cancer Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Biology Grad Hopes to Help Others Through Cancer Research\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Jared Browning knew he wanted to be a doctor the moment he witnessed a group of injured school children enter the Nepalese hospital where he was volunteering last June, just months after a major earthquake devastated the South Asian country. Limited in his skills, he wished desperately he could do more to help.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">But after completing an honours thesis this year on how chemotherapy affects heart health, the 22-year-old biology major is torn between a future in medicine or research as the best way to fulfill his passion for helping others.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u201cA lot of people in science, we come in and we just have this mindset that\u2019s \u2018pre-med,\u2019 and \u2018I want to be a doctor,\u2019\u201d says Browning, who is graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a concentration in Health Science at June Convocation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Read the full story in the latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.carleton.ca\/t\/7586\/130520\/1388\/7\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carleton Now<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Browning knew he wanted to be a doctor the moment he witnessed a group of injured school children enter the Nepalese hospital where he was volunteering last June, just months after a major earthquake devastated the South Asian country. Limited in his skills, he wished desperately he could do more to help. But after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"student-female2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4930,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions\/4930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}