Scientific
research is a methodical, incremental, team-driven process. So
too, Karl Boehme, Ph.D., learned, is coping with a
catastrophic flood. With the water rising fast in their
Bellevue subdivision that rain-soaked Sunday, Boehme and his
wife, Kathy, loaded up their children, Charlotte, 5, and
Nathan, 3, and evacuated at 6 a.m. As they left, they knocked
on neighbors’ doors to wake them up and urged them to head for
higher ground.
Barely
making it out of the neighborhood before the roads became
impassable, the family headed for safety, specifically the
conference room in Medical Center North for the Division of
Pediatric Infectious Diseases, where Boehme is a postdoctoral
fellow in the lab of Terence Dermody, M.D. To read more, click
here. |