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Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Erika Ebbel: Biochemist
Season 2010
Episode 15
Erika Ebbel is a biochemist currently pursuing her Ph.D. at Boston University School of Medicine. She was also Miss Massachusetts in 2004 and competed in the Miss America pageant.
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