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Jill Dopf Viles
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Jill Dopf Viles (1974-2025) pursued her B.S at Drake and Iowa State University in the field of biology/genetics. Viles's researching scientific clinical literature resulted in self-diagnosing herself and her father with Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy (EDMD). She later received a master’s in creative writing from Iowa State University and was an annual attendee of the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival. In the course of researching her book Manufacturing My Miracle on her family’s rare muscle disorder, she collaborated with scientists at the University of Iowa performing gene therapy on mutant fruit flies. Her writing appeared in Johns Hopkins Magazine, and her scientific work was published in medical journals Gene, Cells, and Science Advances.