09: What It’s Like To Try To Cure Cancer With Dr. Art Shaffer, NIH [Main T4C Episode]

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Before he had “Dr.” in front of his name, Art Shaffer was a college student trying to choose the best path. After some self-exploration, Dr. Shaffer followed his passion for science. After getting a BA in Biology, he signed up for grad school at Johns Hopkins U School of Medicine to pursue his Ph.D. In the years since he became the Staff Scientist in the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch, National Cancer Institute, at the National Institutes of Health where he and others are working tirelessly to find the cure for the 400+ diagnosed cancers. Whether you got an A or F in high school biology class, Dr. Shaffer’s warm, outgoing, friendly, and fascinating style will leave Java Junkies wanting more in this episode. Dr. Shaffer graduated from the University of Delaware.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE:

• What a scientist at the National Institutes of Health actually does day in and day out (besides drinking lots of coffee) (1:32)
• The top 2 skills needed to become a great researcher (14:09)
• How networking works in the scientific community (19:30)
• How to best spend your time between undergrad and grad school if you want to go into the sciences and/or research worlds (27:59)
• How to recover from a major screw up (maybe more than 1) and still achieve your dreams (29:51)
• What to do when you get a bad professional review and how to bounce back (33:47)

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