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Ale joined the Yokoyama Lab through a post-baccalaureate NIH-funded fellowship, where she studied clinico-pathologically interesting cases of Alzheimer's disease. She developed a fascination for identifying a genetic relationship to disease through her very first undergrad research experience at the Health Equity Research Lab at San Francisco State University, where she examined the ancestral linkage between triple-negative breast cancer and African Ancestry.
Maison Abu Raya received her medical degree from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 2014. Maison completed her neurology residency at Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera, Israel and passed the Israeli Neurology board exams with honors in 2019. She continued as an attending neurologist at the neurology department. In 2021, Maison joined the Stroke and Cognition Clinic at Rambam Health Care Campus as an attending physician and clinical fellow.