Cytogeneticist Anne Giersch and Structural Biologist Rachelle Gaudet | Meeting the Minds

Funding freeze chills research careers, too

By Billy Baker

Globe Correspondent / March 10, 2008

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In her laboratory, Anne Giersch has a freezer filled with the inner ears of 782 mice. Locked inside that freezer could be important information about the genetics behind hearing loss. But locked is the key word. Giersch, an assistant professor at Harvard University, has twice been denied the funding to probe further. (Full article: 942 words)