It’s an old story really, you spend long nights in the lab devising a protein drug carrier that can maintain a sustained drug release while preventing the protein from degrading inside the human body. Your work could allow a diabetes patient to significantly reduce the number of insulin injections needed regularly. You’re hailed for your achievement and advance to the national Siemens Competition in Math, Science, & Technology.
But then some hotshot comes along and does something sexier, like find alternative ways to kill cancer cells that have grown drug-resistant. What a showboater.
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