Molecular biologist or transcription factor researcher

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Dear all,

I am trying to apply EB-1A by myself. I am now a postdoc in a top public university for 2.5 years.

I change my research topic a little bit from my Ph.D. research. During the Ph.D. time, I did plant transcription factor (environment stress induced) research, which resulted in 7 so-so papers (5 first author), one patent, one book chapter, and one oral presentation.

When I came to USA, I have done two projects; one is about the modification of a eukaryotic transcription factor which is involved in immune and inflammatory responses, caner and other diseases. There are two good papers come out, one first author, one second author. Another one is studying tumor suppressor in breast cancer. I just submit this paper (first author).

I am concerning how to combine Ph.D. work and Postdoc work together. The common thing is they are transcription factor research. The difference is that one is from plant, another one is from animal.

If I say transcription factor researcher, it seems the IO can not understand, but if I say biomedical or cancer research biologist, the Ph.D. work will not be included.

Can I just say I am a Molecular biologist? There is no diseases related, does it convinced?

Thanks for your reply.

 

[jk0274]

The question for you is: Can you demonstrate to USCIS that you have risen to near the top of your field internationally? Do you have numerous well-cited publications and testimonies from others that you are recognized internationally? That is more important than the specificities of your work.

As a post-doc and not a senior PI, this is extremely difficult to accomplish for EB-1A requirements.