March 20, 2011
A Think Tank Seeks to Accelerate Medical Science’s Search for Cures
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Josh Sommer, who suffers from the rare ailment chordoma, not only started a charity but learned microbiology to help aid researchers.
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Josh Sommer, who suffers from the rare ailment chordoma, not only started a charity but learned microbiology to help aid researchers.
Five years ago when Josh Sommer was a freshman at Duke University, doctors discovered a troublesome growth in his skull. They diagnosed him with chordoma, a rare disease marked by incurable tumors of the spine and head that typically kill an affected person in seven years.
When he received the bad news, Mr. Sommer was forced to quit school, but he maintained his Duke ties, and for good reason: One of the country’s leading chordoma researchers works in a lab at Duke.
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