User:Bkangg

About Me

I am a current freshman planning on majoring in Biomedical Engineering on the pre-med track with a double minor in Chemistry and Linguistics at Duke University. I attended Northside Health Careers High School in San Antonio, Texas, where I have lived for the past 12 years.

Background

My family is South Korean. As such, my last name "Kang" is actually pronounced "Gahng", but most Korean-Americans have romanized this pronunciation to simply "Kang".

Career Aspirations

I hope to attend medical school and eventually become an orthopedic surgeon. Attending a high school focused on the medical field allowed me to shadow surgeons in the hospital, and this was a great factor in influencing my decision to go into the medical field.

Grand Challenges in Engineering

The Grand Challenge of "Engineering Better Medicines" has led to a variety of methods of developing methods of treatment that would be extremely effective at curing or slowing certain diseases. One method that was developed was to breed mosquitos that will self-destruct in the wild, greatly reducing the risk of exposure to the Zika virus through mosquitos. Read the article here: How mosquitos with 'self-destruct' genes could save us from zika virus, Meeri Kim, The Washington Post, 29 January 2016, accessed 16 February 2020 (Better Medicines)