Heloise Hoffmann fights to cure her own rare disease

Heloise Hoffmann fights to cure her own rare disease

Heloise Hoffmann ’26 watches two clusters of cells, side-by-side, in her lab. One group is growing and living normally. The other is dying.  Cell death happens all the time in the lab; it’s necessary for disease research. And on the surface, culturing these samples might seem mundane: there’s lots of changing media, a nutrient-filled, watery gel that serves as cell food. But watching these particular cells, and their deaths, holds personal stake…