During graduate school [ah, yes, when we have abundant ideas and no money of our own!] - in research performed separately from my regular work - I made some previously unreported discoveries regarding platelets. While I was able to reproduce my work, as were others in the lab, and the experimental work was peer-review and published (in a 2007 book), I was unable to pursue the research to logical ends. Because I have never seen another team pick up the experimental thread I began, and because there are still fundamental biological facts to be gleaned and Translational (commercializable) Medicine implications. I am game to share in any / all outcomes, for the opportunity to share space and perform some groundbreaking and fascinating experiments. If I had the lab and the money, I'd already have performed this work. Thus, what I bring is the discoveries I have already made, the opportunity to publish a great deal of new information about a part of Cell Biology we all assumed we learned in high school Sciences, and to commercialize (which means we get to help a great many patients, while creating new sources of income for ourselves and our institutions).
The work we would be undertaking neither requires an elaborate setup, nor anything exotic in the way of bench science (wet) - typical instrumentation, cell culturing, microscopy (though, ultimately, we will want to employ a confocal 'scope), and much can be accomplished in a few months. I am going to venture an educated guess this work can co-exist with other cell work in the same lab space, with no real disruption. Indeed, what we need to do at the bench can be done at night and on the weekends...platelets cannot tell time.
Please reach out if you are in a position to collaborate? I wish I could bring money with me...however, once we are underway, I am confident that funding shall come, as well. This is stunning research, and incredible that something so basic was not, previously, reported.
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