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Women in Stem with Vicky Marsh Durban

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As an undergraduate and as a doctoral candidate, I studied intestinal biology in a lab that used mostly animal models, because they were the only appropriate models that were available at the time. There were no relevant in vitro cell models available to answer the questions that we were asking.

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A Defense of Peer Review

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However, I think caution is warranted when drawing sweeping conclusions from these studies because they were each conducted over only a decade (between 1998 and 2008) in just two medical journals (the British Medical Journal and The Annals of Emergency Medicine.) These numbers are quite low and do not inspire confidence.

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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

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After four years of a national effort to “ scientize Chinese medicine ” ( zhongyi kexuehua ), which designated Chinese doctors to study Western biomedicine, Mao Zedong reversed course in 1954, setting a new priority of “ Western doctors study Chinese medicine ( xiyi xuexi zhongyi ).” Nobody had an answer.

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Obstacles and innovations of macrocyclic drug development

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She has a PhD in Microbiology and Cell Biology from the University of Illinois, followed by work in biochemistry as a post-doctoral fellow at UCSF. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery , 7(7):608624, 2008. Nature Chemical Biology , 10(9):696698, 2014. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.