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Yo elijo Boehringer Ingelheim

La misión de transformar vidas durante generaciones con el Prof. Eric Haaksma.

Prof. Eric Haaksma

Investigación y desarrollo

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A colleague of mine said, you have to meet this patient because,

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you know, you see the effect of the work you're doing.

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And I've met cancer patients on compounds that I've worked on.  

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She had a big tumour, she couldn't walk anymore.

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And she was crying.

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She was crying because she was able to walk again.

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And it was just amazing.

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And if you think about what we can do

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when we are successful in industry, we can touch somebody's life.

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And that is so nice.

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I go to work for science and innovation.

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Science is thinking about the problems in health.

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And it can be human health. It can be animal health.

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Solving these together as part of a team,

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bringing solutions to the markets five, ten years down the road.

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That is what I go to work for every single day.

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We basically are a very funny family because we are all in medical sciences.

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And that means that we discuss medical challenges, we discuss scientific

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challenges, we challenge each other about problems that we're working on.

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Why someone wants to work in research and innovation is, the job is challenging.

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You answer questions which haven't been answered before.

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If you're able to solve some of those questions,

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you're going to have an impact later on.

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Is there anything nicer than that? For me there is not.

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Why I'm still at Boehringer? It's fun.

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If I could achieve anything in my job, it's if they would say, it's

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great to be working together with Eric, I would have a fantastic day.

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And if at the end of the career I could look back

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and that some of the work that I've done

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has resulted in new medications coming to the market,

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I think that's the best.

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