‘Unsung heroes’ support research, including Nobel Prize winners
For years, Juliette Lee knew Dr. Paul Modrich as a very meticulous man, focused on details of his decades-long research about how mistakes in DNA code are repaired.
Then last October, she knew Modrich as aNobel Prize winner.
Still, the one title that didn’t change in six years of their relationship is “principal investigator,” which Lee uses to refer to Modrich, the doctor who benefits from Lee’s behind-the-scenes work as a research administrator.