At the tender age of 26, Gary Cantor, Durham, North Carolina researcher, is already a Ph.D. candidate and can already boast of a notable career in medical research. This should surprise no one. Even when he was a young boy in Coral Springs, Florida, Gary Cantor knew he wanted a career in the medical field.
His first dream was to be a surgeon, because he watched a lot of medical reality shows on TV and he thought they looked the coolest. However, his overall goal was to give hope to the hopeless, so that dream shifted a bit when he saw a YouTube video of Dr. Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist who firmly believes that medical research of the genome, which he refers to as the body’s instruction manual, could increase life expectancies to as much as 10 centuries. Medical research then became his life’s calling.
When he was accepted into the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program (BBSP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a while back, Gary Cantor made Durham, North Carolina his home. He now works in the university's Genetics and Molecular Biology Department.
His first dream was to be a surgeon, because he watched a lot of medical reality shows on TV and he thought they looked the coolest. However, his overall goal was to give hope to the hopeless, so that dream shifted a bit when he saw a YouTube video of Dr. Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist who firmly believes that medical research of the genome, which he refers to as the body’s instruction manual, could increase life expectancies to as much as 10 centuries. Medical research then became his life’s calling.
When he was accepted into the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program (BBSP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a while back, Gary Cantor made Durham, North Carolina his home. He now works in the university's Genetics and Molecular Biology Department.
