Hi everybody!
My name is Eric Ma, and I’m currently the VP (Internal) for the iGEM of UBC Club.
In last year’s team, I’ve led the Funding sub-team in securing student stipends and sponsored DNA synthesis, and we hope to build on this success to seek out more funding from other groups this summer, and for next year too. I was also a full-time team member helping out with experiments and
My career goal is to become a biomedical engineer specializing in programming minimal cells to do useful things, just as robots do nowadays. My specific focus is on cancer, as I have a personal experience and loss in my family related to cancer, and I have a vision of these minimal cells having a great impact on cancer treatment and diganostics.
Outside of class, I enjoy a wide variety of activities. One of my particular favorites is randomly making up music on the piano. I also love badminton and football (soccer for the Americans), and I follow the Red Devils Manchester United. Then there’s photography, as evidenced by the photo of the Michael Smith Labs in our team’s old website. I’m also volunteering with the Science Peer Academic Coaches to develop the program to greater heights this year.
