Apropos PCIBs nye samarbeidspartner, israelske Aposense.
Så er the scientific president der en nobelprisvinner i kjemi.
“Aposense is a highly innovative Israeli biotechnology company with full capacity research facilities and scientific leadership, headed by the Professor Roger D Kornberg, Nobel Prize Laureate, 2006. Aposense developed a universal platform entitled Molecular Nano-Motors (MNMs) for the delivery of genetic drugs, such as siRNA, into cells based on a novel mechanism of action, utilizing membrane electrical forces.”
“Professor Kornberg served as a director of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. from 2007 through 2013. Professor Kornberg is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Winzer Professor of Medicine in the Department of Structural Biology at Stanford University, Stanford, California. He has been a member of the faculty of Stanford University since 1972. Prior to that, he was a professor at Harvard Medical School. Professor Kornberg is a renowned biochemist and in 2006, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition for his studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription, the process by which DNA is copied to RNA. Professor Kornberg is also the recipient of several awards, including the 2001 Welch Prize, the highest award granted in the field of chemistry in the United States, and the 2002 Leopold Mayer Prize, the highest award granted in the field of biomedical sciences from the French Academy of Sciences. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University. He holds honorary degrees from universities in Europe and Israel, including the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he currently is a visiting professor.”
Som en funfact har hans far også en nobelpris, i medisin.
Satser på at fyren har god vurderingsevne når de nå tenker at et samarbeid med PCIteknologi er tingen, regner med at han har hatt siste ord i saka om samarbeide.