Cross-Disciplinary Learning Is Not Talent: How I Self-Learned My Way from Engineering to Biomedicine and Bioinformatics I didn’t start on the “right” path My academic training began in engineering—chemical engineering and civil engineering. At the time, biology felt distant and abstract. Molecular mechanisms, cellular signaling, and biological data analysis were not part of my formal education. What engineering gave me was not certainty, but a habit of structured thinking: br