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It's the problem, stupid!

Nature Biotechnology volume 30, pages 742–744 (2012)Cite this article

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A serial entrepreneur learns that the world's most exciting, groundbreaking technology is pointless if it is unable to address an urgent and relevant need.

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  1. Tillman Gerngross is a professor of engineering at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA; cofounder and former CSO of GlycoFi (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck), Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA; cofounder and CEO of Adimab LLC, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA; cofounder and president of Arsanis Inc., Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA and Vienna, Austria; and a venture partner with SV Life Sciences, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.,

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