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POSTDOC: “Biomedical research is constantly evolv
ing” Anna Carbery is a postdoc in Thomas Helleday’s Laboratory at SciLifeLab Stockholm, with Karolinska Institutet as her host university. Her research looks at how we can implement AI-driven peptide design to make new cancer therapeutics. T E X T A N D P H O T O B Y G U S T AV C EDER W 26 | NORDICLIFESCIENCE.ORG HAT SPARKED your interest in science and in your specific field? “I was always interested in science, even as a young child. My interest was further encouraged by a very enthusiastic primary school science teacher who got us doing all sorts of hands-on experiments. I loved studying biochemistry as an undergrad but it was during my master's project that I got into computational structural biology, which determined my current path. It allowed me to start making sense of these thousands of proteins in the human proteome in a visual, three-dimensional way.” “This excitement for protein structure took me into my PhD research where I analyzed patterns of protein-ligand interactions to try to improve general approaches to early-stage drug design. However, I also wanted experience working with designing new treatments for specific diseases, which led me CAREERS // CAREER CHOICE