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Women in Stem with Vicky Marsh Durban

Drug Target Review

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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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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