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She was formally diagnosed a year later, in August 2008. Burke had to give up her research and leave her job at SRI International, where she'd led the vaccine development department for six years. A career scientist who'd worked at many biotech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, Burke was used to doing simple math problems in her head while behind the wheel. It was a relaxing habit. But that day four years ago, she couldn't remember how to do multiplication. And she panicked. She'd been a researcher long enough to know almost immediately what was wrong: She had Alzheimer's disease."I'd seen patients with it. I'd seen them develop more symptoms," said Burke, 63, sitting in her kitchen. "I knew what it looked like, and it frightened me." Since then, she's launched a new era in her scientific career: as a patient advocate and a test subject. In fact, she's a patient in a clinical trial testing the very vaccine to treat Alzheimer's that she helped develop more than a decade ago. "Life is full of ironies," Burke said with a small smile. Continue to read: scrippsnews.com
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