Episode

Pamela Maher lets us in on plants' medicinal secrets

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Beyond Lab Walls | Salk Institute
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Mar 15, 2024
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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.