Sadeea Khatun Rahman Personal Statement
Recently, interest has been focused on the design and evaluation of prodrugs that are capable of exploiting one or more of the various transport systems at the level of the blood brain barrier. This advance in medicinal chemistry means that, very soon, treatment for diseases which we believed to be incurable may be found. Because I am living in a time of technological advancements in the chemical world, it is said that in my lifetime my latter statement is very much possible. This idea excites me as I could be in a group of chemists to find a cure for cancer as the development of non-invasive methods of drug delivery to malignancies of the central nervous system are well underway. Studying chemistry at your university will not only deepen my knowledge and passion for the subject, but will allow me to apply this to the development of efficient methods of synthesis.
My interest in organic chemistry matured from a very early stage in GCSE chemistry when I discovered how many reactions take place in our bodies at a very rapid rate and how particular drugs create such an immense effect as to stop neural pathways sending signals to the brain. This further deepened in A Level chemistry where I learnt about the detailed chemical structure of many elements involved in these drugs. The practical assessments where I performed titrations advanced my practical skills and showed me how much I enjoy the practical element of chemistry as well as the theoretical component. These skills were very useful in the Cambridge Summer School I attended in August as I had to apply them when carrying out a titration in the laboratory to work out the concentration of a certain substance needed to neutralise the product. Performing a practical experiment in the university atmosphere with the precise equipment excited me about what I would be doing in ...
