Courtesy of The Institute of Systems Biology
My wife organized a symposium. It was wonderful. Some of my students that I haven't seen for 20 years attended. The thing that I found the most interesting was how diverse the directions were that my students took. It validates my ideas on how to educate people, to be flexible, and to be willing to explore new things.
I don't think that this scares me [because] I am confident it will work in the end – but creating resources for the institute, so it achieves its full potential and reaches the dimensions of the science that we want to explore. So now, I am trying to put in place the fundraising program to create an endowment.
[The institute is] good at raising money for specific programs, but ... the innovative things are hard to fund. For example, when I invented the DNA sequencer, ...
