Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University. Age: 37
Structural virologist Ekaterina Heldwein, who goes by Katya, has followed a less-than-direct path to success in science. As a Russian chemistry undergraduate with a desire to live abroad but little money, she headed to the biochemistry graduate program at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) in 1994. But she had to find it first.
“I was only worried she could find Portland,” said her graduate advisor, OHSU structural biologist Richard Brennan. While planning her trip, Heldwein had accidently bought a ticket to Portland, Maine, and didn’t notice her mistake until right before she boarded the plane in New York. While Heldwein was stranded at the airport, an OHSU graduate student was able to rearrange a corrected flight for her.
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METHODS: Having found Oregon, Heldwein was thrilled to ...
