A Conversation with Ricardo Dolmetsch
- Senior Editor, Scientific American
This extract was created in the absence of an abstract.
Ricardo Dolmetsch is the Global Head of Neuroscience at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research and an Adjunct Professor of Neurobiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Gary Stix:You've had an interesting career. What I'm interested in is why, after a successful career in academia that was continuing to progress, you decided to make the move to industry.
Dr. Dolmetsch:There were at least two things that motivated my change. The first was that I had become very interested in translational research. I have a son who has autism. I had become very interested in identifying mutations that lead to intellectual disability as well as autism, and I'd become very close to the families and I was getting a little frustrated that we weren't making much progress in terms of trying to come up with treatments. I thought that I needed to be in a place where I …
