Cover Letter 3
I was very excited to see your vacancy for the job of ‘Ph.D. students in Heart Failure Research: studies into protein homeostasis in inherited cardiomyopathies’ which was advertised yesterday on the UMCG website. I am a well-qualified health professional who would be an excellent choice for this position. I have Bachelor degree in Nursing and Master degree in Adult Health Nursing. Since 2013, I have worked as a lecturer at Debre Berhan University, Ethiopia as well. Moreover, I have the experience to work on big data in the Netherlands.
Since I am keenly interested and highly motivated in doing research, I started to follow research master degree study at the University of Groningen, Clinical and Psychosocial Epidemiology Department from 2015. I have several publications which you may find <here>. I am interested in cardiovascular research to examine environmental and genetic risk factors. My current project focused on disentangling the genetic and non-genetic risk factors of type 2 diabetes in patients with psychosis. This project is embedded within the Genetic Risk and Outcome of Psychosis (GROUP) project, a large prospective Dutch cohort study.
One of my utmost long-term goals was to pursue a successful academic career in cardiovascular research and clinical practice. I believe that the sole reason for pursuing a more advanced research is to approach with the moment of facing a new challenge and the need to solve it. Continuing Ph.D. will increase my knowledge about the effects of several genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors attributed to cardiovascular disease.
It is my life ambition to conduct a high-quality demand based clinical research. I believe that scientific research and its methods provide an unrivaled framework in which the problems of the physical world can be determined, and found solutions. In addition, discovering the implied meanings behind the scientific theories always encourages me to think and research the subject matter. I believe that the quality of life can’t be improved with possession, but through contribution. In this context, my effort to contribute to evidence-based medicine practice shall be the greatest satisfaction in my life. Therefore, this Ph.D. program is the golden opportunity to share extensive research experience to conduct the best research, manage clinical project, and expand my academic career for the future.
