“Personally, my most favorite part of YYGS was seminars that had a variety of academic fields and were all offered by undergraduate and graduate students. All the seminars were well-organized and intriguing: for example, Music In Medicine, which I was looking forward to the most, gave me a new perspective and potential of music.”
What does real research look like? And how is research applied in an actual laboratory? At my school, it is harder for the students to do scientific research than you might expect, since we do not have a research facility or exceptional research programs.
That’s why I had decided to do a one-week research opportunity at the University of Tokyo, Neuropathology, for the rest of summer vacation, post-YYGS. The issue was mainly fundamental research about Alzheimer’s disease, and I observed a cluster of accumulated CLAC in a mouse’s hippocampus, which is a new Alzheimer’s amyloid plaque component derived from a transmembrane precursor and triggers proteins for two days.
Through this valuable research experience, I realized how important basic research is to develop a cure for the disease for the future.