BRIN scholars on campus — meet Ximeng Zheng

Ximeng Zheng

Twenty-two students from eight different undergraduate and community college programs have joined the Institutional Development Award Program (IDeA) Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE)/ Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) program.

Established in 2001, the BRIN program was created to expose students to serious biomedical research, build a statewide biomedical research infrastructure between undergraduate and graduate institutions and to strengthen each undergraduate institution’s infrastructure and increase its capacity to conduct cutting-edge biomedical and behavioral research.

Today, we meet Ximeng Zheng, one of the new BRIN scholars on campus.

Tell us about yourself.

I am a diligent person and like looking for answers of interesting questions.

What are your career goals?

To discover something interesting or important.

How did you become interested in science?

Science itself is interesting because there are too many questions that can’t be answered right now.

What do you hope the BRIN program will do for you?

Help me build a firm foundation for research in the future.

How do you see science evolving over the next 20 years?

All different areas are now interacting with each other. I think the trend will continue and science in next 20 years will be more interactive. Areas such as bioinformatics will be more productive.