Profile Jean L. Patterson, PhD Chairman, Department of Virology and Immunology, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research

摘要

Only one woman has ever directed a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory-the highest-containment lab facility, required for work with dangerous and exotic agents that could spread through the air and cause life-threatening disease. Into this highly mythol-ogized environment, Jean Patterson brings a down-to-earth candor. Asked if working in a BSL-4 is a cinematic thrill, she replies, "It surely isn't. But that's one of the reasons people like to work here: because they make movies out of this stuff."