Living and Studying Alopecia
By CLAUDIA DREIFUS
Published: December 27, 2010

Angela Christiano, 45, an associate professor of dermatology and genetics at Columbia University Medical Center, studies hair. Last summer, she announced the discovery of the genes implicated in alopecia areata, the hair-loss disease that she herself suffers from. We spoke for two hours in her Washington Heights laboratory and then later on the telephone. An edited version of the two conversations follows.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/science/28conversation.html