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Michelle Rubin

Graduate student, Baylor College of Medicine

Michelle Rubin is a graduate student in biomedical sciences at Baylor College of Medicine and an intern with the Baker Institute’s Science and Technology Policy Program at Rice University. Her thesis work in Dr. Gad Shaulsky's lab focuses on the social predation of bacteria by the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum.

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Health

With experimental drugs, "right to try" can go wrong

By Michelle Rubin and Kirstin R.W. Matthews, July 29, 2016

When it comes to experimental drug access, circumventing Food and Drug Administration protections can leave terminally ill patients vulnerable to unknown — and possibly deadly — side effects.