I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

When I came to University of California, San Francisco to work on infectious disease, I looked around to different options, and malaria was particularly interesting and fascinating to me. It's amazing that after 100 years of study of this little parasite, we've not been able to effectively control it.

I think my formative experiences were really in junior high, where at a typical public school we were doing little genetic experiments, very classic experiments.

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