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Collins, to his credit, emailed me and said he would move fast. This was in 2015. And he kept his word. He gathered some top clinicians at NIH and told them to design an intramural study - meaning it would take place on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md. - to try to figure out what goes so wrong in the disease. Collins chose neurovirologist Avindra Nath (pictured with me above) to be priniciple investigator. Nath is the head of clinical neurology at the NIH Clinical Center.

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