Growing up, J. Christopher Love never imagined that he’d be exploring the intricacies of the immune system as a career. In high school, he developed theoretical designs for molecules that could act as electrical devices at the MITRE Corporation, a government-sponsored defense technology company in Fairfax County, Va. Love says the project helped him “realize that molecules are really critical for understanding how you make structures.” His MITRE supervisor, James Ellenbogen, sent Love’s manuscript to Harvard chemist George Whitesides for comment. Whitesides liked what he saw. “That was a prelude of things to come,” Love says. The study was published in Proceedings of the IEEE —Love’s first in a long list of publications—and he ultimately joined Whitesides’s lab 5 years later for his PhD.
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