Being a student athlete is already a very rewarding and challenging experience, but what about having to do graduate level research while still playing on a team? To some, it sounds like it would be impossible, but for Georgia Southern graduate student and midfielder Jack Philp, it’s just another day.
Jack is taking the research path for his master’s program, where he observes the genes of zebrafish and studies ways that affecting their genes can affect human genes.
Jack discussed that this study was a key part of what he wanted to do in the future, that being to help people find alternatives to addictive painkillers.