Leading medical researcher, competitive oarsman battles Down syndrome 

Dr. Roger Reeves

Spend a few hours hanging out is Dr. Roger Reeves’ Down syndrome laboratory at Johns Hopkins and you’ll probably come away from the experience of a great deal of appreciation for the intellectual challenge involved in battling one of the world’s more formidable genetic disorders. Reeves, a 1975 biology graduate, has spent the past 20 years engaged in grueling research on one of the most debilitating–and complicated– genetic conditions in all of medicine.

Read more about his team’s research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…