Valerie Bolivar

Research scientist
New York State Department of Health

Valerie Bolivar is director of the Mouse Behavioral Phenotype Analysis Core in the Division of Genetics at the New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center.

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How variability among mouse strains can aid autism research

By Valerie Bolivar
21 March 2018 | 4 min read

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