Steve Piccolo's Blog

I haven’t posted much on this blog lately, but I wanted to tell you my latest news. For the past four years I have been paid to attend school full time while working on my PhD. I’m still working on my PhD (hopefully I’ll finish in the next 2-3 months), but my scholarship/fellowship has ended, so I had to find a way to pay the bills Yesterday I started a job that I’ll be doing for the next few years or so. It’s unique, I must say. I’ll be half employed as a researcher in the University of Utah’s Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. And I’ll be half employed as a researcher in BYU’s Department of Statistics. So I guess I’m in the PAC-12, and I’m independent! (That’s a football joke.)

For my job, I’ll be working on some cutting edge research related to analyzing people’s DNA and RNA (basically speaking) and coming up with better ways to determine the best treatments for cancer patients. I feel very privileged to be doing this kind of work and to be working with great people.

Posted on September 2nd, 2010 under Uncategorized • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback