
Supporting Science Overcoming Disease
Full Circle – with Dario Sattui Approximately eight years ago I fell off my bicycle and broke almost every bone in my neck. Now all my neck bones are fused. I have a plate with screws holding my bones together and I can turn my head only partially. At the time, my wife-to-be, Irina, wanted me to go to University of California San Francisco (UCSF), a well-respected teaching hospital, l but was notified by St. Helena Hospital that there were no beds available. She called her daughter Valeria, a research scientist, who worked for Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco. Gladstone