Research matters: How a brother with Down syndrome inspired a PhD in tuberculosis and an ardor for science communication

PLoS Pathog. 2018 Feb 8;14(2):e1006816. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1006816. eCollection 2018 Feb.
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Publication types

  • Personal Narrative

MeSH terms

  • Aspirations, Psychological
  • Biomedical Research
  • Down Syndrome / metabolism
  • Down Syndrome / prevention & control
  • Down Syndrome / therapy*
  • Family Health*
  • Health Communication*
  • Humans
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / pathogenicity
  • Parent-Child Relations
  • Siblings
  • Tuberculosis / metabolism
  • Tuberculosis / microbiology
  • Tuberculosis / prevention & control
  • Tuberculosis / therapy*
  • Workforce
  • tau Proteins / metabolism

Substances

  • MAPT protein, human
  • tau Proteins

Grants and funding

The authors received no specific funding for this study.