Paige Roland

Paige Wilhelmina Roland, MD, PhD, (RN: PR-01-03-03-2344994), was a praised scientist and professor best known for her work on Terra-forming, genetics, and HyperGrow.

Early Life (2319-2344)
Paige was born 17 days early in a hospital in Port Verde on the planet Theta. Her mother left her at the hospital with her ex-husband, and never tried to contact her again. Her father hated children and blamed her for her mother leaving him so he sent her off planet to Winston-Farnesworth Boarding School where she stayed year round.

She showed promise as an exemplary student early in childhood. She had a "photographic memory and used it to soak up everything she read and saw". While her peers were still learning the English alphabet she was already learning a second language. She was learning the numbers of Pi at age 7 and had conquered physics by age 10.

Paige graduated college with her MD at age 16. Her thesis that year was the celebrated piece "Ethical Considerations in Access to Experimental Drugs for Treatment Use". She attended Jupiter Corp's University of Biological Science for her PhD, where she was also the assistant to the head of the Genetic Engineering department and served as a student adviser to a team working on improving terraforming. She was seen as a gifted scientist and was sought after highly - she was accepted to all 24 residencies she applied for.

After graduation, she took a residency in a botany lab for one year where she grew experimental saplings and other plant life for use in terraforming. She wrote several research papers on plants and other tools used and several of her experiments were celebrated for shortening the time it takes to prepare a planet or moon for life by about 50 years. These papers were later void after humans quit terraforming. After leaving the botany lab, she bought her own lab on Theta to start her own research on genetics, a topic that held great interest for her.