From the beginning, getting into graduate school was one of my main goals, but the question of how to finance my PhD . higher education was a major obstacle. In the Middle East, there is a clear lack of human rights, particularly for women. So, it is quite difficult to apply for a graduate scholarship and men have a complete advantage in any scholarship, if it exists. In 2012, I joined UWM as a sophomore majoring in biological sciences. I was fortunate to be a student in Dr. Timothy J. Ehlinger's class where our goal was to understand the complex systems of life and especially in science and how to try to solve them in the most efficient way possible. We conducted a study that will be published in a book chapter written by Dr. Ehlinger. With the excitement of my first step into my dream career, after my first semester at UWM, I decided to join the Biomedical Sciences department to pursue my Ph.D. Cancer research has always caught my attention and I find myself most challenged when working in the field of cancer. research. For this reason, I joined Dr. Jennifer Doll's laboratory to pursue my Ph.D. so that t...