Thorn
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If you have the time and don't mind, take a look at the new imaging agent cellpoint is working on. What is your take on the potential?
For full disclosure, it is a firm located about a mile from my office and I hear updates from the management all the time. Just looking for an outside unbiased source. Again, only if you have the time and desire to take a look at it.
This is really exciting work. I can't help but reflect on the overwhelming body of work that has been achieved to reach this point, but it's nevertheless extremely impressive. I mentioned cryptically something about the eclectic nature of different cancers, and the need to consider all the effects of any treatment, not just the targeted effects. Their statement, the R & D section, everything included in their website just kindled a fire in this little researcher's heart! I wouldn't be surprised if we were looking at Nobel Prize level work in this group.
Darla, I am a Dr. but a Ph.D., not an M.D. Generally speaking, the majority of MDs don't make good scientists; their education is not geared in that direction at all. I do research and love it. A week or so into my postdoc at NIH, my lab chief laughed and told me I wouldn't last a month in Med. school because I questioned everything; I mean everything. I wanted to know why, what was the source, how was this determined, what else could explain it, etc., etc. That approach is useful in the lab. Plus I have a practical sense that is useful in developing equipment when we need something that doesn't exist.