BiologyMarch 1, 2020
The Married Researchers Racing to Stop Prion Disease
For Sonia Minikel Vallabh and Eric Vallabh Minikel, the quest to prevent a fatal neurodegenerative disease is personal
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Sonia Minikel Vallabh runs a research laboratory at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard dedicated to developing a treatment or cure for prion disease. The couple changed careers to become medical researchers after they learned that Vallabh is at high risk of developing the fatal illness.