Cancer Research and how to become a Cancer Researcher - with Dr. Vajira Weerasekara (Episode 1‪)‬ Pubudu Nawarathna

Full audio of the discussion with Dr. Vajira Weerasekara on Cancer Research and some guidance to become a cancer researcher. (See the chapters of the discussion below)



පිළිකා පර්යේෂණ සහ පිළිකා පර්යේෂණ කරන විද්‍යඥයෙක් වෙන්නේ කොහොමද යන තේමාවන් ඔස්සේ ආචාර්ය වජිර වීරසේකර මහතා සමඟ කළ සාකාච්ඡාවේ සම්පූර්ණ ඕඩියෝව



Dr. Vajira Weerasekara was awarded as a Forbeck Scholar by William Guy Forbeck Research Foundation in 2020 to acknowledge the contribution to the Cancer Research (https://www.wgfrf.org/blog/2019/9/9/2020-forbeck-scholars-announced).

He is currently working as a Research Fellow in Medicine at

Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA.

He completed his P.hD in Biochemistry in Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, USA

He completed his BSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in University of Colombo, Sri Lanka

To read his publications: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=vajira+weerasekara&sort=date



00:00 intro

01:24 Did you dream to become a scientist?

05:25 Why did you decide to do higher studies?

11:08 Why are you interested in research?

16:13 Do you have any advice for someone who is willing to do higher studies?

21:48 How to understand a research paper easily?

25:34 Why did you come to the USA to pursue higher studies?

27:49 What are the things we need to consider before selecting a country to pursue higher studies?

29:45 What are the challenges you faced at the time you started P.hD?

34:37 What is cancer and what is the relation of genes to cancer?

39:48 What happens in cancer research?

41:25 Why cancers are common now?

43:10 What we can do to avoid cancer?

44:09 Why still there is no cure for cancer?

48:12 What is the current trend of cancer research?

49:34 Can scientists find a cure for cancer in the future?

52:40 What is the best achievement in your life



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