Episode
Pamela Maher lets us in on plants' medicinal secrets
- Published
- Mar 15, 2024
- Duration seconds
- 1744
- Processing state
not_requested
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063/episodes/pamela-maher-lets-us-in-on-plants-medicinal-secrets/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063/pamela-maher-lets-us-in-on-plants-medicinal-secrets.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
In the first year of her new life attending university in Montréal, Research Professor Pamela Maher made a fateful switch from political science to the biological sciences. On this episode of Beyond Lab Walls, Maher recounts how the science major girl-next-dorm inspired her flourishing career studying age-related neurodegeneration and diseases like Alzheimer's—and how we could potentially treat them with plant derivatives.