By far, academia! One word: students. I think hanging around with people that still have that passion for learning keeps me excited to learn new thin… - Oluwatoyin A. Asojo
" "By far, academia! One word: students. I think hanging around with people that still have that passion for learning keeps me excited to learn new things. I believe I’m not going to stop learning until I’m brain dead, so I like being around people that have that zest for life and that passion for science and that optimism. They’re not jaded.
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About Oluwatoyin A. Asojo
Oluwatoyin Asojo is the Associate Director for Strategic Initiatives at the Dartmouth Cancer Center. She previously served as Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Hampton University, and as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics – Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. She is a pioneering crystallographer and her interdisciplinary research bridges chemistry, biology, mathematics, and computational science. Dr. Asojo specializes in the structural study of proteins linked to neglected tropical diseases, contributing to global health and drug discovery efforts.
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Oh, it’s everything. I think the ability to see connections where people don’t normally see connections is so important. When you’re able to think about problems from a bird’s-eye view rather than being stuck on the small, incremental aspects of it, you come up with solutions that people may think are crazy, but they end up being the best approaches. Of course you also fail a lot more, because you pursue crazy ideas. But in the process of failing, you find new directions that enhance your research.
One of the constants in my research is I don’t like doing projects that everybody is interested in. So I focused my research on neglected tropical diseases. Traveling, moving, and mixing with people have actually reinforced that idea, because there are all these diseases that affect so many people that don’t get the level of focus because nobody wants to study them, or there’s not enough funding.
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