Dr. Sergiu Pașcă

He was just like so interested about like how this is evolving.

And I remember he was sitting in my office and then he wanted to know, where are you with Timothy syndrome?

The paper was still under revision at Nature, was coming in the next few months.

And then he said like, you know, like the saddest thing is like, I'm not going to see this paper published.

Like, I want to see this paper published.

And I said like, why?

And he goes, do you know what you've done?

You know, because he would usually use with that intensity.

And I thought like, oh, my God, maybe, you know, he realized some, you know, we've made the mistake somewhere in the paper or like, you know, it's going to point out to some flaw.

And then he says, no, you've demystified the psychiatric disease.

I said, what do you mean?

He said, well, you think about psychiatric disorders.

They're so esoteric, so complex, mental processes that are arising, behavioral changes.

And yet you went all the way down to like a molecular defect, a point mutation, figure out the rest.

And now you're on a verge of potentially, perhaps not reversing, but at least improving some.

So he was so excited about this.

I think I never kind of like think enough perhaps about it, but he was the last one who so like reminded about like how important it is actually to focus on these genetic disorders of which we know more.

Of course, this is just one form of disease.

There are so many more afterwards.

But our hope is that just by understanding and learning from this, we're going to be able to apply to other disorders.