Some breakthroughs don’t start with a grant or a roadmap — they start with a question no one expects to matter.
For JB, that moment was a cold email from a biologist he’d never met, asking if he could synthesize a molecule “when you’re back in Munich.” That simple ask pulled a young chemist out of the fume hood and into the messy, electrifying world of live-cell biology.
What followed — a trip to London, confocal imaging marathons, and a partnership built on trust and c