A Spartan changing the way we fight cancer
Jan. 10, 2023
Carolina de Aguiar Ferreira couldn’t do what she does anywhere else.
The assistant professor with Michigan State University’s Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, or IQ, spends her days finding new ways to use radioisotopes from MSU’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams — the world’s most powerful heavy-ion accelerator located in the heart of campus — to target cancer cells more precisely. In considering where to pursue her career, she knew the university had not only the tools and technology to support that goal but also sensed it had the environment she was looking for.
“I wanted to work in a place where people work together,” de Aguiar Ferreira says. “We learn better together. We teach better together. We discover better together.”
De Aguiar Ferreira’s commitment to community took root while she was growing up in Brazil, where her love of science also bloomed.