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On the day when thousands normally run a marathon down the length of the Napa Valley, one local teenager trod the 26.2-mile distance for the first time â to pay tribute to her mother and to raise funds to battle the disease that took her life.
Setting off Sunday morning from the Vintage High School parking lot, 16-year-old Natasha Beitz put one foot ahead of another on a course up the Vine Trail, northward past the mustard-blossomed vineyards of the wine country, and finally back to her home campus shortly before 12:30 p.m.
When the Vintage junior finally returned to a cheering welcome by her father, sister and about 20 other well-wishers, she had completed a journey that had been jump-started by six months of training â but truly launched by the desire to honor her mother Monica Beitz, who died of brain cancer in April 2016, at age 46.
In 2005, Rubins earned a doctorate in cancer biology from Stanford University s Medical School Biochemistry Department and Microbiology and Immunology Department.
There, she and colleagues from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed the first model of smallpox infection in addition to a complete map of the poxvirus transcriptome.
She also studied virus-host interactions using both in-vitro and animal model systems.
After her time and Stanford, Rubins began as a fellow/principal Investigator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology s (MIT) Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.
At MIT, Rubin headed a lab of 14 researchers studying viral diseases that impact Central and West Africa and traveled to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to conduct further research and supervise study sites.
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