I became a microbiologist because I was fascinated by the secret lives of microbes. Viruses and bacteria had an elegance I couldn’t ignore – tiny organisms that could hijack or reshape the biology of much larger hosts.
When I specialized in virology, I was drawn to the question of how viruses moved through the body, how they entered cells, and hijacked cell biology for their own purposes. Some of my early work focused on mother-to-infant transmission of HIV.
Intracellular living therapeutics convert cellular signals into coordinated healing programs
Author's summary: Microbes can be trained to heal.