February 23, 2026
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https://www.inside.iastate.edu/article/2026/02/23/why-faculty-get-excited-about…
Don Sakaguchi was charting a course to medical school as a biology undergraduate at the State University of New York, Albany, when he made a life-changing discovery. While studying insect sensory systems in a neurobiology lab, he realized it was the research -- not the medical path -- that truly inspired him.