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APSA? What's APSA?

Steven K. Lau, University of California-San Diego

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I'll always remember my first patient. She came to UCSD's student-run free clinic with problems hearing. After a brief workup, it became evident that she had an unfortunate case of earwax. In my premedical naïveté, I neither expected to "cure" earwax in the clinic nor at the bench. After all, what study section would fund a project on earwax? I was surprised then one morning, to find the genetic basis of earwax make headlines (1,2). Somebody thought it was important and was willing to financially support earwax research.