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I was always interested in microbiology. After medical school, I first became involved in basic research on antimicrobial resistance. It wasn’t as big an issue then as it is today, but the biology fascinated me, so much so that I took several years off from clinical training and completed my PhD in molecular microbiology. I then wanted to become an infectious diseases physician; however, there
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