This was by far the most interesting seminar I have taken at UW. The course was structured into three units, each on a type of cancer treatment: stromal therapy, immunotherapy, and virotherapy. The graduate students who taught the seminar were deeply involved in the respective treatments they taught, so it was especially enlightening to ask about their experiences and use them as resources to build my own ideas and hypotheses about how to handle the complex problem of cancer. I also very much appreciated the amount we were pushed to collaborate with our peers, and I gained a lot of insights on projects in-class work from my fellow students. I expected this class to help build my foundation for a career in disease research, and it certainly did that, making me even more eager to go into the field.
Our final project was to create a research poster outlining a "next step" procedure to extend off a preexisting study about cancer treatment. I chose to build on a paper on an extensive immunotherapy clinical trial.