A Conversation with Ricardo Dolmetsch.

Abstract

Dr. Dolmetsch: There were at least two things that motivated my change. The first was that I had become very interested in translational research. I have a son who has autism. I had become very interested in identifying mutations that lead to intellectual disability as well as autism, and I’d become very close to the families and I was getting a little frustrated that we weren’t making much progress in terms of trying to come up with treatments. I thought that I needed to be in a place where I could do that. That was one reason. The second reason was that I found that we probably didn’t have the expertise required to pursue some of the scientific questions that I wanted. That wasmostly because we were not really very well set up to try to do studies in humans the way I wanted to do them. So those are the two main motivations for moving.