I am applying to your master’s (Taught) course in Cancer Biology for the September 2020-Full Time Semester. After getting my undergraduate degree in Biology-Animal Sciences from the University of Guilan (Rasht, Iran), I was accepted into the Biology-Genetics program to get a master’s degree from that university in 2010. I worked on my thesis, titled 'Expression of HDAC11 mRNAs in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus of chicken (Gallus gallus) during prenatal and postnatal development under the supervision of Dr. Farzam Ajamian at the Genetic Laboratory of the University of Guilan from 2012 to 2013. I learned much more than the simple roles of genes during our master’s sessions. I passed a lot of captivating courses and became aware of the significance of a unique gene to create a serious disease. I have been fortunate enough to do my thesis research about a rarely known gene (HDAC11), with great success (19.85/20); besides, the related paper was submitted and I look forward to getting a response. After that, I had a project on a truncated form of a gene (TrkB-T1) alongside Dr. Ajamian from 2013 to 2014, and I am preparing the related manuscript titled 'T1 form of Truncated Tyrosine Kinase B receptor gene (TrkB-T1) has distinguished transcriptional activity during pre- or postnatal mouse brain development to be submitted. I evaluated the expression level of those genes in chicken and mouse brains as model animals during their prenatal and postnatal development via Real-time PCR.
Since, I noticed my hometown lacks an institute with professions in cancer, molecular regulators of cancer, and analyzing genetic data derived from patients; I was incentivized to establish an institute concentrated on Cancer in my hometown (Rasht) and take a small promising step towards health level progression in my country. As my major was Biology-Genetics, I had not earned sufficient knowledge of Medical Genomics and specifically Cancer; Therefore, I needed to be a trained specialist to run a Cancer Institute. Ultimately, I found Cancer Biology the most perfect direction to achieve my career goals.
I was searching for a well-equipped university in London with modern facilities and laboratories; furthermore, as this course will be taught by internationally renowned lecturers, having a collaborative relationship with different expertise in multi-professional education from companies like GlaxoSmithKline or research institutes like the Institute of Cancer Research will help me acquiring relevant skills necessary to my career goals as a founder and entrepreneur. My career goals include entering this field professionally and focusing on giving service to patients and even researchers. Comprehensively, I believe it is worth spending a year of my life, studying Cancer Biology at Kingston University in the hope of starting a new business in my country.
I believe that my education and experience make me a good candidate for a postgraduate degree in your Course. I am highly skilled in molecular techniques due to my research at the university. Despite being experienced in statistic software applied in data analysis, I can work with some bioinformatics software. I intend to broaden my knowledge in Cancer Pathology and acquire professional skills and strategies to search for therapeutics r learn from my work experience already.