Shereen Nasrullah

I'm an international student in Buffalo studying parasites in my lab, and I've just always been keen on diseases. As a kid, I always wondered how diseases happen. I used to want to treat people, especially if I saw someone sick. It was always something I was curious about, to know more about why they're like that. That's why I kind of chose this path over the conventional medical path of being a doctor. I want to contribute to actually fixing the root problem of how a disease is formed and how it can be eradicated completely. Right now, I'm working on African sleeping sickness, which is prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa. There's a lot of loss to the economy and a lot of loss to lives as well, so it's just something that's sad, and I want to fix such problems. I'm thinking of either doing a PhD after this, studying more into parasites, or I'm also thinking of working with hospitals and working with infectious diseases.