[dnautics]

As someone who is doing a startup to try to develop cures for cancer, your project may not necessarily directly help mine, but somewhere along the line, there is someone who wrote an IDE that enabled tools that enabled what I'm about to do. I remember when I was younger, my dad stumped $500 for borland turbo pascal, and $1500 for MS visual C++, later. Now that there's competition for these things, it's to where I can afford one for development on a meager budget and, eventually for my children, too. Programming, in many ways directly influences the way that I think about things, and I'm incredibly glad to have learned how to do it, even if I haven't made anything of consequence (made an android app in the early days that netted me $300).

The adversity is an asset thing I completely understand. Although I was trained as a biologist/chemist, I always shied away from ideas like "curing cancer/AIDS" but when my "adoptive grandmother" passed from cancer, and a cancer drug development project fell into my lap, I took it as a sign and now my resolve is steeled. I also never imagined I would be running a company (or a nonprofit one, at that)... Yet, here I am.

We're rooting for you.