Hello, I'm currently applying for the 2023-2024 NSF GRFP cycle in life sciences. I am a Cell and Molecular Biology first-year PhD with a focus on cancer biology. My proposed research is not directly cancer biology related and is more basic cell biology and gene regulation with implications for cancer biology in the broader impacts section, thus I am not too worried that it would be considered ineligible. However, in my personal statement, it would be disingenuous to not talk about my previous cancer biology research and my commitment to designing new targeted therapies in my future goals. Is this okay to talk about in the personal statement? Did anyone else with a disease or medicine background talk about that in the personal statement? Thank you!
