Perhaps this future chemist will become a RPH working for a manufacturer or return to academia? This is a Horatio Alger story of an immigrant's son who seems to have made good. It's always nice when the next generation has more opportunities that the last one.

http://www.rgj.com/story/news/2014/12/05/snakes-unr-chemistry-grad-venomous-research/19974027/

Boris Zhang spent part of his undergraduate career at the University of Nevada, Reno, working on a project of Ruben Dagda, assistant professor in the molecular biosciences graduate program, along with Indira Shrivastava, that looked at atom-to-atom interactions, where one protein in a snake venom was more potent than another.