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Not a direct answer to your question (because I don't know) but there's a couple doing research into a cure for prion disease because one of them (Sonia Vallabh
by abetusk 10y ago
Not a direct answer to your question (because I don't know) but there's a couple doing research into a cure for prion disease because one of them (Sonia Vallabh) has it.
Eric Minikel has been blogging about their research [1] [2], maintains an active Twitter presence [3] and has GitHub [4] repositories on the issue. The blog has a lot of information for anyone wanting to know more about bioinformatics, basic research and prion disease in particular.
[1] http://www.cureffi.org/ http://www.cureffi.org/
[2] http://www.cureffi.org/about/ http://www.cureffi.org/about/
[3] https://twitter.com/cureffi https://twitter.com/cureffi
[4] https://github.com/ericminikel https://github.com/ericminikel
- dmix 10y ago> Sonia and I set out on a quest to re-train ourselves as scientists. We both started taking night classes, reading papers, calling up scientists, going to conferences. We left our old careers and found jobs in research labs, and eventually enrolled at Harvard Medical School, where we are now PhD students in biological and biomedical sciences. Wow, what a great story. Inspiring that you can change careers mid life and be successful. Thanks for sharing.