Driven by a Big Problem
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The chairman of our science advisory board, Professor Sidney Hecht, was also my PhD dissertation advisor and one night, late in the lab, he came forward after writing a review of some manuscripts, and we were talking about the philosophy of science and he told me, "Guy, you know you will have arrived as a scientist when you finally relinquish control and understand that when a big problem crawls under your skin, it owns you, you don't own it." Energy metabolism drives us, it drives me. I want to undestand, how nature is designed in terms of its energy blueprint. But I want to do that past just understanding that blueprint, I want to understand that blueprint as to how it positively will impact children, and other people with diseases that impact energy metabolism.