Chapter 221 Research Direction
First of all, of course, her basic knowledge was not solid. The biology class she took originally included many students from medical-related majors, but when she occasionally mentioned some pharmaceutical-related questions in class, no one could answer them.
Secondly, they are too detached. Perhaps it is because the university environment in Country A is too relaxed. Everyone spends a lot of time on socializing, and you can hardly find anyone who is keen on studying and concentrating on hanging out in the library.
So she gave up her undergraduate studies and set her sights on becoming a graduate student in pharmacy.
Although I spent a lot of time observing and selecting, I still couldn't find a suitable partner in the end.
Finally, Zhang Wei had no choice but to post on the school forum, thinking that it would fall on deaf ears. However, he did not expect that there would be quite a lot of students applying.
However, when interviewing them, Zhang Wei realized that he was naive. Many of them were not students from his major or related majors. They claimed that they wanted to change their majors to accumulate some experience.
Zhang Wei: Why is it so hard to find someone as useful as my old self!
In the end, she had no choice but to ask for help from her mentor, Professor Laura, who recommended two reliable candidates to Zhang Wei.
It turns out that these two are not Harvard students, and both of them are no longer students. The reason why they were rescued by Professor Laura is because these two people failed in their doctoral applications this year.
Professor Laura thought they had a good foundation and recommended them to Zhang Wei.
Zhang Wei had considerable trust in Professor Laura's vision, so after the professor gave her her contact information, Zhang Wei directly asked two people to come to her laboratory for a trial period.
Unexpectedly, the two people who came were beyond Zhang Wei's expectations. One was a middle-aged Indian man in his forties, and the other was a middle-aged Asian woman who was a little older. Neither of them looked like a student assistant.
"Excuse me, are you Dr. Wilson? Oh, excuse me!"
When Zhang Wei walked out of the lab and took off his mask, the man seemed to realize he had asked the wrong question and was about to apologize. Zhang Wei pointed to his work badge and said:
"Yes, I'm Vera Wilson, if you're looking for me."
Then Zhang Wei talked with them and found out that the middle-aged Indian man was called Irfa. He was originally a pharmacist in India, but he immigrated here and had to take the exam again.
The same situation applies to the middle-aged woman, Li Shan. Both of them are veterans who have been engaged in research and development for many years, which makes Zhang Wei feel a little tricky.
"Although my lab is currently preparing research and development projects, my progress is not very fast. They are all relatively basic experiments. If I ask you to do them, wouldn't it be a waste of your talents?"
Ilfa quickly waved his hands: "No, no, you can just consider it as hiring us to do the work, and you will pay us, right?"
Zhang Wei didn't intend to cheat. She paid according to the hourly wage of Country A, but it wasn't too much, just a little higher than working in a restaurant. After all, her original plan was to work and study.
"The salary isn't that much—"
"I, I accept. I think I can do it. Thank you, Dr. Wilson!"
Before Zhang Wei finished speaking, Li Shan hurriedly spoke, and it seemed that she really wanted to get this job.
Zhang Wei looked at Irfa and found that he had no objection. Since she had already agreed on it, she was not dissatisfied with them, so she decided to leave it like this for now.
"Just call me Vera!" Zhang Wei felt pressured by them calling her that.
Just like that, two "assistants" twice her age and experience came to Zhang Wei's laboratory, which sounded fantastical to talk about.
That day, Zhang Wei sent them her research progress and asked them to do a part of it first. She found that they were really efficient and also told her some tips, which made Zhang Wei feel that it was really worth the money.
When Zhang Wei and Paris talked about this in the evening, their tone was full of disbelief.
"I am so lucky!" Zhang Wei exclaimed.
Paris retorted, "No, Vera, you're so kind, and they're so lucky."
"Hmm?" Zhang Wei doesn't think he has the aura of a good person.
"Think about it, would other labs want people with their identities?"
Zhang Wei thought about it and shook his head. Everyone still wanted to find students in related majors.
"And they don't have any valid documents to prove they have the foundation in this field, so they can't find relevant jobs."
"Professor Laura——" Zhang Wei hesitated to speak.
"You've figured it out, right? If Professor Laura could arrange for them to work in her own lab, she wouldn't have recommended them to you."
"Besides, you're not the only student she has with her own independent lab!"
"Now that you mention it, it seems like I did something good. Actually, I didn't think too much about it at the time. I thought they really needed this job and they were definitely qualified for it."
"You are so kind and tolerant, don't you realize it?"
Paris's praise made Zhang Wei a little lost. She couldn't help but ask herself:
"Am I... so... kind? This doesn't seem to be about me."
It has to be said that with these two assistants, the progress of Zhang Wei's laboratory has been advancing by leaps and bounds. Even the final results that she originally planned to complete by the end of the year have come out.
She took the opportunity to submit her paper directly to an important journal, and unexpectedly it was accepted. This was the first good news Zhang Wei received in her first semester of doctoral studies.
Then she had to think about the next topic, because if she really wanted to start her own new drug development plan, she thought of several topics, but later rejected them all for feasibility reasons.
In the end, she simply gave up thinking about it and went directly to ask the two assistant seniors for advice.
"If you ask me, although I used to work in generic drugs, I think it's easier to achieve success in the field of epidemiology."
"I agree with this too," Li Shan also agreed with his idea.
In fact, Zhang Wei has also considered the direction of epidemics, but the variability is too great. If it is aimed at a certain virus, it should be possible, so he will go in the virus direction.
In fact, research in this direction is already quite mature. Common epidemics now have specific medicines. Even for a simple influenza, there are dozens or even hundreds of medicines.
But in reality, although there are so many kinds of medicine, people still rely on their own immune system to completely recover from a cold. Could it be that most of the cold medicines on the market are actually a scam?
No, it is not, because the virus is too variable. So is it possible to find the original strains that cause most cold symptoms, find the common characteristics of these mutated strains, and develop a special cold medicine that can kill these viruses?
Zhang Wei felt excited when she thought of this. She wanted to find her future research direction!
Even if she can't find such an effective medicine in the end, finding the original strain will be a contribution.
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