>> I grew up in Eastern Pennsylvania.
And I then matriculated at Penn State University for my undergraduate degrees.
I majored in biochemistry and molecular biology.
I also majored in chemistry.
I just was so interested in both types of science that I found a way to make both
of those majors work together for me.
One of the really, really memorable things for me
about Penn State was the first doing undergraduate research.
And a lot of the skills that I learned through undergraduate research helped propel me
into graduate level of research and then into the type of research
that I perform in my current position.
After Penn State I had the wonderful opportunity of being able to do a masters course
at the University of Cambridge in the UK under the Gates scholarship program.
And there I had exposure to an international community of scientist and scholars.
And it gave an even a larger perspective on what would be more
of a European style of approaching science.
I then went back to the United States and pursued a PhD in Chemistry at Caltech.
And it was there that I developed the PCC,
Protein Catalyzed Capture technology that's what I'm working on currently in the startup company.