 In Cuba, if you grow up in Cuba and you don't play baseball, oh, you're not a good Cuban. It's like not drinking coffee. My story is a little bit kind of unique, kind of like gravitated towards this in a kind of a special way. I have a lot of family members that died of cancer and I know the consequences and it's not the fact that they died, it's just the quality of life. It gets impacted tremendously by cancer and if I can even help a little bit of a cancer population do better and have a better quality of life, that will be a reward enough for me. My name is Renea Hernandez. I started as a graduate student in 2011 in the Department of Medical Physics here at UW Madison and at the same time I joined the BTP program as part of one of the trainees and I recently graduated in 2016 from my PhD and now currently working in the Department of Radiology here at UW. The research I am doing now is basically on a molecule that targets cancer and we're leveraging the targeting properties of this molecule to deliver either toxic radiation doses to cancer or deliver imaging doses of radiation. So depending on what we attach to our molecule, we can either treat the cancer or visualize the cancer. Now, since I'm trying to do more translational research, I've come to realize that the industrial part is key. If you're going to eventually make an impact on society, you have to take it to the industry. Basic research in itself is never going to make the direct impact on the society. You need to go through the entrepreneurial part where you can actually make products and make things that actually the public can use and benefit from. If everything works as expected and based on the preliminary data that we have acquired, it could make a big impact.