Dinakar Singh

This all came in a difficult circle because having some of the science background, but having the good fortune and the good luck and privilege of working in investing and finance helped us go and actually put that science to work.

A further amazing irony, Columbia was our leading center in all this.

And my mom had worked on faculty at Columbia.

And Roche makes the drug that my daughter's on.

And my father got a job at Roche as a Roche scholarship that paid for my college.

funny how it's ended up being a circular process, but it costs a lot of money.

I think we spent probably $150 million of our own money on this.

But in the scheme of things, the commitment that we made at the beginning to ourselves was that

If there was a way, we were going to find it.

And no matter what, make sure that we were able to go and drive through it.

And winding back to where we started in some of this, I guess that's a bit of a stubbornness, but also maybe a preferable word.

It's the determination I saw in my parents.

So in that sense, I think really nothing less than one that I would do for my daughter.

I think it was like two or three.

We were getting into nursery school.

And by the way, another saga and another crusade that I'm going to be on more aggressively going forward.

You know, the getting schools to care or take her was unbelievably hard.

When she was going to private school, I think she was the only kid in a major New York City private school in a wheelchair.

And I kind of know this as well, because I'm on lots of boards, public library, lots of dysfunctional boards, lots of influential friends, lots of charity relationships.

I couldn't find a single school that would take her.