One thing I forgot to mention–through my work, I was given the opportunity to take a class with the amazing Dr. Yu Shyr, who has so many titles that I am afraid to refer to him by just one of them. The class was on clinical trials, and it was an intensive course that covered many things that go into clinical study design, the phases of a trial, biostatistics, etc. I learned a lot, although the short timeframe made me feel like my brain was overclocked. I now have a healthy respect for those researchers who design studies, especially large, multi-site ones. It would be such an enormous undertaking.