Suitable for 14-to-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.
This resource links to KS4 and KS5 biology.
It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers
• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Lali Medina-Kauwe, a biomedical scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She has bioengineered a new protein molecule that can cross the blood-brain barrier and deliver drugs to brain tumours.
• This resource also contains an interview with Lali and offers an insight into careers in biomedical science.
• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Lali’s research and challenges them to build their own model of Lali’s protein using objects they can find around the house or classroom.
This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).
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