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Not many people can say that their scientific journey began with crying babies. Christalyn Rhodes, however, can. As an undergraduate, Rhodes, now a PhD candidate at GSAS in the Biological Sciences in Public Health (BPH) program based at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, studied primary ciliary dyskinesia in young children, a rare genetic disorder that affects the function of cilia in the respiratory tract. “Babies with ciliary dyskinesia have recurrent cold infections and we do not understand why,” Rhodes explains.

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