“And when he mentioned he wanted to help people, particularly with autoimmune diseases, I was sold immediately.”Īt lunch the next day, the outlines of a company were formed. This protein, and that pH level,” said Guillen.
“Marco was speaking passionately about his discovery of a new protein conjugation technology. “I wasn’t sure if anyone would see the value behind the science, since it was so far out of scope compared to what other people were working on.”īut in the crowd was second-year MBA student Geo Guillen, a tech product guru hoping a Berkeley business degree would point him to more fulfilling and purposeful work. “Good God! I came in with all of these graphs and charts and all this science, and I’m trying to present to a bunch of business majors, whose last chemistry class was likely freshman year of college,” Lobba said. He just didn’t know how to turn the potentially lifesaving idea into a successful company. Marco Lobba worked in the Berkeley labs of world-renowned chemist Matthew Francis and Nobel Prize-winning faculty Jennifer Doudna.
0 kommentar(er)
