No Kiddin’

Last week I was pleased to attend the 5th anniversary reception for the Cambridge MA-based Institute for Pediatric Innovation (IPI), a not-for-profit founded by one of my technology transfer mentors, Don Lombardi.  After a career in business and technology transfer at Children’s Hospital Boston, Don started IPI to address the lack of new technology and [...]

PET Friendly

Just about everywhere in the world, rabies is an endemic and invariably fatal disease afflicting many mammals, including us.  It is caused by a rhabdovirus that is present in an infected animal’s saliva through which it can be inoculated into other animals via bite wounds.  The virus enters peripheral nerves, evades the immune system, spreads [...]