Careers: The challenges of biotechnology (V0342)
Peter Molan is passionate about his research – he uses his ingenuity and extensive knowledge of science to find solutions to problems.
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Here, Peter explains what he likes about working in biotechnology.
Transcript
Peter Molan (University of Waikato): I see biotechnology as taking the biological knowledge and applying that to get through to a product of some sort or a process, which can be useful.
I find this work I have done on honey I really enjoy because I like challenges and finding solutions to the problems, and I think this has thrown up a large number of challenges and has allowed a lot of ingenuity to be used.
What is involved is applying all of the breadth of scientific knowledge I have accumulated over a lifetime and using pretty well all of that to understand what the problems are, because if you don’t understand a problem, you can’t produce a rational solution to it.
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- Published:
- 19 November 2007
- Copyright:
- The University of Waikato
