Former High School Dropout Becomes 草榴社区 Neuroscientist In Race To Find Huntington鈥檚 Disease Cure
Sometimes, you鈥檙e just dealt a bad hand. Jeff Carroll was a high school dropout serving in the military when he learned his mother had Huntington's disease. It's genetic, and he soon learned he had it too. There鈥檚 no cure. So the diagnosis is a death sentence. But rather than despairing, Carroll turned his life around. And in the decade since his diagnosis, he鈥檚 become one of the most prominent researchers studying Huntington鈥檚 Disease. He鈥檚 now on staff at Western Washington University in Bellingham.
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