Dinakar Singh

If you think about this, if you're a student in medical school,

and a disease is well-known, you might want to focus on it afterwards.

So you're doing more research.

If a disease no one's ever heard of until recently, there aren't many people working on it.

So there aren't many people applying for grants.

And when you apply for grants, there aren't many people who understand it to know whether it's a good grant or not.

And so there's a lot of stuff that just takes a long time for the cycle to work.

And it was hysteria that said, look, there's a chance here, but we might be waiting a couple decades or so for this to work.

By that time, she's going to be gone.

It occurred to me, and I tell people this now, the second worst thing that can happen to a parent is to see their child suffer and die.

The single worst thing, though, is to see your child suffer and die, only to find out that you could have done something about it

but it wasn't done in time.

And so once we got the idea in our head that there's a glimmer of hope here, it really almost deranges you, if you will, because then any second you're spending doing anything that isn't max speed is a wasted moment.

And so that led to just, we're going to take a shot of this.

I'm not going to go and take a shot, only to find out we went slowly.

So this has to be max turbo, pull out all the stops, let's go for it.

Part of that was money.

It struck me that all these things take time.

You could fund some scientists, get some basic research, and then go to the next one, and the next one, and the next one.

And that will eventually work, but it'll take forever.