Ann Moser:  

Life I arrived on February 7, 1940, before the Valentine’s Day blizzard.The Boody household at 216 Main Street provided shelter, food, and nurturing to me, my brothers, Peter, John, Paul and Stephen and many others. In the second grade, I and 7 other Wakefield girls became piano students of Eleanora Martin. In high school I studied organ with June Patriquin. During my college years at Radcliffe College I continued with music studies, with organ lessons, singing with and accompanying the Radcliffe choral society.After my first year at Radcliffe College, I chose to major in biochemistry, and found a part-time job in the laboratory of the Konrad Bloch, who later received the Nobel Prize for his work on the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Upon graduation from Radcliffe in 1961, I accepted a research technician job with Hugo Moser, M.D. at the McLean Hospital Biochemical Research Laboratories. Hugo had received a grant from the Multiple Sclerosis Society to study brain lipids from patients with inherited disorders of the nervous system. Thus began our more than 40 years of working together, Hugo providing the grantsmanship, writing scientific papers for publication in peer reviewed journals, and speaking at scientific meetings and Ann at the lab bench doing the experiments, keeping the records, devising new laboratory procedures, and in the last 20 years, managing the peroxisomal diseases laboratory. In December 1963, Hugo and I were married. Our first child, Karen Maria, was born in December 1964. In the summer of 1965 we moved to 559 Chestnut St., Lynnfield, MA. I continued to work in the lab, and my mother agreed to take care of Kare...Expand for more