# Pamela Maher lets us in on plants' medicinal secrets

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Podcast: [Beyond Lab Walls | Salk Institute](https://stenobird.com/podcast/beyond-lab-walls-salk-institute-6780063)
Published: 2024-03-15T17:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.salk.edu/blw-podcast/pamela-maher-beyond-lab-walls-podcast/
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## Resource

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.

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