Maxine Linial is a virologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and one of the world's leading researchers on an obscure group of microorganisms called simian foamy viruses.
She’s been at the Hutch for 40 years looking through microscopes in the lab and studying swirling cells in petri dishes. However, that changed very suddenly five years ago.
While Linial was going for a run, a car ran her over. She was rushed to Harborview and spent months in the hospital, only to go blind. Sound Effect’s Gabriel Spitzer talks with Linial about the accident that changed her perspective forever — and how she managed to return to the lab.
Originally aired September 17, 2016
