Question: why did you choose to research cancer over everything else you could research?

Alexis Barr answered on 19 Jun 2013:

Cancer is a very interesting and complicated disease and so it is very interesting to find out more about it. By studying cancer we can also learn a lot about other parts of biology as well – like how humans develop and grow. Also, there is still a lot we don’t know about cancer and we need to know more so that we can develop better treatments to stop people dying of this horrible disease.