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 Terry Jo Bichell worked primarily as a public health nurse-midwife until her youngest child, Lou, was diagnosed with Angelman syndrome in 2000. She quickly shifted her focus to advancing research, helping move bench science into early clinical trials and contributing to the design of natural history studies. Dr. Bichell earned a PhD in neuroscience from Vanderbilt University in 2016, studying gene-environment interactions in Huntington’s disease rodent models. She went on to serve as founding ...