The professor of chemistry and systems biology at Stanford University School of Medicine took a leave of absence and started her own company to commercialize a drug that lessens the effects of heart attack. 

Dr. Rosen, as well as hundreds of other tenacious and brilliant PhD visionaries from around the world quickly learned - there are a myriad of obstacles standing in the way of a major jackpot, both professionally and financially. She noted that “Gatorade, Google, web browsers and plasma screening, all which were invented at public universities, are exceptions to the rules.”