A Brief Personal statement

Ever since in high school, inspired by the great deeds of well known scientists like Archimedes, Copernicus, Einstein, and so forth, I have determined to become a scientist and began my pursue for science career. I got brilliant academic record during undergraduate study and obtained my bachelor’s degree in clinical medicine. Afterwards, exempted of examination, I went to pursue my master’s degree in neurobiology for the reason that I am too much intrigued by the amazing power of brain and its complex delicate structures that materialize the mind. It is my area of fascination.

Being a graduate student engaged in neuroscientific research, I earnestly studied the courses related to my majoring and set my hands on experiments. As a cooperation project of department of immunology and my supervisor, I chose the mouse model of PD and investigated the role of complement, a component of innate immune system, in the pathogenesis of MPTP induced neurodegeneration of dopamine neurons in Snpc, harnessing complement 3 knock out mice. It was a challenging task in our lab since no one has ever done this before, involving the making of the injury model and large amount of article reading. Although I failed to obtain a positive result in the main project, a parallel idea did work, which provide the clue for me to proceed and finally composed a paper which is just the English publication in my CV(it is also attached to the letter, if you don’t mind).

Aside from the techniques relevant to the main project, I have learned some other basic experimental techniques, such as Western blot, ELISA and some molecular engineering processes. Admittedly, I can not say I have mastered these techniques. I just know something about them.

Through my diligence and intelligence, I obtained my master’s degree with flying color since I am the only graduate who has published a paper in SCI English journals during 3 years of master’s study out of more than 200 graduates. Although Neuroscience letter is not an eminent journal and my work is not worth much of mention, I still feel grateful to the editor and to God since it is not an easy job to make it under such unfavorable circumstance, plus I wrote, submitted and defended it all by myself.


As an aspring young man, I am still looking for chances of going out to better improve myself since the past three years of graduate study makes me aware of the necessity of going to first class of labs if I want to make my mark in life. I am sure that I can still grow, whereas another three years research in here may mercilessly snuff out my academic life. I yearn for a fruitful life.

2006-9-4