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Teepu Siddique

Pakistani American neurologist
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Kara Rogers is the senior editor of biomedical sciences at Encyclopædia Britannica, where she oversees a range of content from medicine and genetics to microorganisms. She joined Britannica in 2006 and...
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Teepu Siddique, Pakistani American neurologist best known for his discoveries concerning the genetic and molecular abnormalities underlying the neurodegenerative disorder amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS; or Lou Gehrig disease). Siddique studied botany at the University of the Punjab’s Islamia College in Lahore, Pakistan, before enrolling at Dow Medical College in Karachi and earning a medical degree (1973). He then moved to the United States, where he completed an internship (1976) at Perth Amboy General Hospital in...

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