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Published on: January 18, 2010
The class of 2005. Norway: a neuroscientist making connections
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A clinician by training, Farrukh A. Chaudhry's passion for basic science has taken him across the Atlantic, where he discovered a new family of neurological amino acid transporters. Last August, he just started his first faculty position at the Biotechnology Centre in Oslo.
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