Dr. Mink Chawla

Well, so my background is I'm an ICU physician, I'm a nephrologist, and that combination is unbelievably uncommon. So people who go into critical care will usually do it with anesthesia or with pulmonary or with surgery. Doing it with nephrology is a really uncommon combination, really uncommon. So I did that. I was at George Washington University Hospital for 20 years.

And that space sort of blew up in real time in front of us. And it's all about how you can take a very sick patient, take blood out of their body, do things to it that helps improve the patients, put the blood back in. So it's really advanced plumbing, pool filter kind of stuff. Right. I mean, like dialysis-ish. Dialysis-ish, exactly. And that just led to an enormous amount of research going on.

And that space sort of blew up in real time in front of us. And it's all about how you can take a very sick patient, take blood out of their body, do things to it that helps improve the patients, put the blood back in. So it's really advanced plumbing, pool filter kind of stuff. Right. I mean, like dialysis-ish. Dialysis-ish, exactly. And that just led to an enormous amount of research going on.

And that space sort of blew up in real time in front of us. And it's all about how you can take a very sick patient, take blood out of their body, do things to it that helps improve the patients, put the blood back in. So it's really advanced plumbing, pool filter kind of stuff. Right. I mean, like dialysis-ish. Dialysis-ish, exactly. And that just led to an enormous amount of research going on.

And I also ended up doing some work on a new vasopressor, which is a drug called angiotensin II. And that is the drug that led me out of academics. And I spent five years at a company called La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company, where I was very privileged to work with an extraordinary team. And we got the first drug approved for septic shock since the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1962.

And I also ended up doing some work on a new vasopressor, which is a drug called angiotensin II. And that is the drug that led me out of academics. And I spent five years at a company called La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company, where I was very privileged to work with an extraordinary team. And we got the first drug approved for septic shock since the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1962.

And I also ended up doing some work on a new vasopressor, which is a drug called angiotensin II. And that is the drug that led me out of academics. And I spent five years at a company called La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company, where I was very privileged to work with an extraordinary team. And we got the first drug approved for septic shock since the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1962.

So that was a great experience and extraordinary people, extraordinary clinicians and investigators. But the project that sort of led me down to my more dialysis driven days actually started at DARPA. So I sort of had this full academic life. And then I went on to work on this team to develop this drug. And now I'm sort of back into a dialysis.

So that was a great experience and extraordinary people, extraordinary clinicians and investigators. But the project that sort of led me down to my more dialysis driven days actually started at DARPA. So I sort of had this full academic life. And then I went on to work on this team to develop this drug. And now I'm sort of back into a dialysis.

So that was a great experience and extraordinary people, extraordinary clinicians and investigators. But the project that sort of led me down to my more dialysis driven days actually started at DARPA. So I sort of had this full academic life. And then I went on to work on this team to develop this drug. And now I'm sort of back into a dialysis.

And it was a wild, wild thing. So I was asked to join this DARPA program and

And it was a wild, wild thing. So I was asked to join this DARPA program and

And it was a wild, wild thing. So I was asked to join this DARPA program and

Oh, thank you. So that's a really good point. So DARPA is the Advanced Research Projects Administration. It was developed after Sputnik. So some of your listeners will not know what Sputnik is. You and I are not going to talk about our age to discuss why we know Sputnik. If you're my age, you know Sputnik. So the Russians basically launched the satellite. The U.S. didn't see it coming.

Oh, thank you. So that's a really good point. So DARPA is the Advanced Research Projects Administration. It was developed after Sputnik. So some of your listeners will not know what Sputnik is. You and I are not going to talk about our age to discuss why we know Sputnik. If you're my age, you know Sputnik. So the Russians basically launched the satellite. The U.S. didn't see it coming.

Oh, thank you. So that's a really good point. So DARPA is the Advanced Research Projects Administration. It was developed after Sputnik. So some of your listeners will not know what Sputnik is. You and I are not going to talk about our age to discuss why we know Sputnik. If you're my age, you know Sputnik. So the Russians basically launched the satellite. The U.S. didn't see it coming.

We were completely surprised by it. DARPA was created in response. DARPA's singular and enduring mission is to prevent strategic surprise. So they get a solid budget and their job is to imagine and dream up what terribleness can come our way and to do projects and research to be prepared for it. So in 2013- We roll into a room. I'm relieved of my electronics.

We were completely surprised by it. DARPA was created in response. DARPA's singular and enduring mission is to prevent strategic surprise. So they get a solid budget and their job is to imagine and dream up what terribleness can come our way and to do projects and research to be prepared for it. So in 2013- We roll into a room. I'm relieved of my electronics.

We were completely surprised by it. DARPA was created in response. DARPA's singular and enduring mission is to prevent strategic surprise. So they get a solid budget and their job is to imagine and dream up what terribleness can come our way and to do projects and research to be prepared for it. So in 2013- We roll into a room. I'm relieved of my electronics.

You go in and a colonel gets up and says, in the future, there will be a pandemic. We will not be prepared. There will be no vaccine. There'll be no drugs. There'll be nothing. And while we're sorting it out, we want to develop a filter that runs like a dialysis system that removes pathogen. And I am looking at this guy.