Anna Greka

But it is an unlikely story and one that I feel still very lucky and blessed to have had these opportunities.

So for sure, it's been...

Ah, yes.

This is interesting.

And actually, I encourage more colleagues to think about it this way.

So I have always been driven by the science.

And I think that it seems a little backward to some people.

But I did my PhD in neuroscience because I was interested

in understanding something about these ion channels that were newly discovered at the time.

They were most highly expressed in the brain.

Here I was doing work in the brain in the neuroscience program at Harvard.

But then once I completed my PhD and I was in the middle of my residency training, actually, at Mass General, I distinctly remember that there was a paper that came out that implicated the same family of ion channels that I had spent my time understanding in the brain.

It turned out to be a channelopathy that causes kidney disease.

So that was the light bulb.

And, you know, it made, you know, it made me realize that maybe what I really wanted to do is just like follow this thread.

And like my scientific curiosity basically led me into studying the kidney.

And then it seemed practical, therefore, to get done with my clinical training as efficiently as possible.

So I finished residency, I did nephrology training.

And then there I was in the lab, like trying to understand what,

you know, the biology around this channelopathy.