DULUTH, Minn.—Shadab Rahman’s business is sleep, but it wasn’t his dream job.
“I needed a summer research project,” the Harvard Medical School instructor said. “The only available lab was in Toronto. … They studied sleep.”
That was when Rahman, now 36, was an undergraduate with an interest in cardiovascular medicine. His summer in Toronto led to a second summer as a research associate at the same lab and then work at another Toronto lab with the same mentor as he achieved his doctorate degree.