This book is like a movie watching international scientists at a US hospital at The University of Chicago over the shoulder. It captures the excitement, achievements, up and downs as well as the friendship of the lab members working on different floors, in particular on the fifth floor. Some of the lab members we will encounter briefly, some to a more extent. We will follow them on campus and sometimes to beautiful downtown Chicago.

Dr. Xiaoyan Wu works as Associate Professor of Pediatric Nephrology and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, NY. In her free time she enjoys Manli Yang graduated from Beijing University in the fine arts. She embarked on a journey that led her to become an international artist. Tragically, she recently lost her fight to COVID-19. Dr. Andree Shalabi works in medicine and as a High School teacher in Hamburg. She is passionate about science, the environment and animal protection.