When he finished his PhD in biological chemistry at Duke University in 1978, Dave Jarvis got the feeling that the daily plodding of bench-side science wasn't right for him. "I wanted something that was more goal-oriented, something with more immediate gratification," he says. He started looking in industry R&D, but the job market was saturated, so he had to become creative.
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