“I was back at the lab five days after birth — I was that determined to complete my thesis.”,Cellular Mission,“I was back at the lab five days after birth — I was that determined to complete my thesis.”
BALANCING ACT “It is important to think more about what you want to do with your life and less about what you feel like studying. Once out in the world you have to face the real challenges of balancing your life with your job… and as a wife and mother it was terribly hard to find a position that allowed me that balance.”
Name: Daniella Nistenpover│Profession: Biomedical Researcher│Location: Jerusalem
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s a child Daniella Nistenpover’s dream was to be a doctor. With maturity she realized that spending a decade on residencies and a grueling internship would be difficult to reconcile with the frum family life she envisioned for herself. Letting go of Dr. Daniella she chose the next best thing: studying biomedical engineering atIsrael’s Technion inHaifa. She wasn’t even sure what the term meant but hey — it had the desired medical connotation.
Daniella commenced her studies only several months after getting married and it wasn’t long before significant complications arose. “I gave birth the day before my first end-of-year final. It was a difficult exam on regular differential equations — not something I could take in the hospital!”
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