Pimentel had cubital tunnel syndrome caused by repetitive strain injury (RSI).
Three years later, as a computational-genomics postdoc at Stanford University in California, he does just that. “My adviser jokingly said, ‘Can’t you do this by voice?’” he recalls.
As a computational-biology PhD student, his work involved constant typing - and he was born with only one arm. Debilitating hand pain is always bad news, but Harold Pimentel’s was especially unwelcome.
