At least they were until Kraus came along. As part of his studies in an interdisciplinary bioprocess engineering doctoral program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Kraus invented a way to selectively breed tHSCs quickly and effectively in the laboratory by culturing them in a bioreactor he designed. For his qualifying exam, Morey was asked to develop a proposal for research unrelated to his doctoral research. I proposed a reactor that would mimic how stem cells grew in bone marrow. Kraus' advisor, Judith Miller, associate professor of biology and biotechnology, immediately recognized the project's potential.
Doctoral committees review a lot of concepts that are interesting in theory.
Morey's was the first in a long time that seemed to have recognizable commercial potential and was also the first qualifying proposal ever, in my experience, to eclipse the originally planned doctoral research. Science is Kraus' second career. I took some courses at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa., then decided to take my uncle's advice. I closed the company and enrolled in WPI's master's program in biotechnology in 1988 then switched to the doctoral program. As founder, president, and treasurer of t.