concepts that came from Whitesides' inventive
mind. Examples of the latter sort included Genzyme, Geltex Pharmaceuticals, and Advanced
Magnetics. Examples of startups more directly connected ... well as ideas that spin out of George's lab. In the case of
GelTex, it was an idea that was based on some broad, fundamental scientific work that George ... design the surfaces of them
to interact with things in biology were important. GelTex made all of the materials and the
direction came out of George's head