It was springtime in Paris when Judith L. Swain flew there in 2005 from her home in San Diego for what amounted to a high-class job interview. Swain was 56 at the time, with more than a lifetime worth of achievements as a molecular cardiologist in a string of senior-level appointments, most recently as dean for translational medicine at the University of California, San Diego.
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