You can theorize all you want, but until you actually step into the lab and do the work, you don’t know what the outcomes are going to be.

I want to be able to say that I contributed to a project that has a meaningful impact on someone's life. That's the role I see [mass spectrometry] having here and for the future in helping achieve that goal.

The whole process has to change because it’s new technology. You can’t analyze these large molecules the same as you do the small molecules. So we all have to think of ways to handle these new issues that we have never seen before.