November 14, 2003
Finding Their Way Back Home
As AIDS research shifts to Africa, African-born scientists move with itBorn in Senegal, Ibou Thior was the only person in his family who attended college. After seven years of studying medicine, nine years of research on AIDS, and a master's degree in occupational medicine, he won a fellowship to do graduate work at Harvard University. His family members, he says, had been more impressed when he became a medical doctor. They never heard of Harvard.
After studying abroad, many of
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