University of Calgary

It’s a popular question: What did you do over the summer? For Lubaba (Aurna) Khan, the summer of 2018 will be one she will never forget. Khan spent the summer hunched over a computer interpreting free, publicly accessible health and genomics data. “Bioinformatics is the new frontier of medical science,” says Khan. She was comparing the differences between genes found in cancer cells and those found in normal cells. Working under the guidance of Bose, Khan learned how to construct questions and hypotheses. It was a bumpy start.