Put off by failure, others dropped by the wayside. It is overflowing with papers, binders, journals, and more paper, all precariously underpinned by a desk, shelves, and cabinets, circa 1960. He is graduate director of the Surgical Medical Research Institute of the Department of Surgery and, on top of his own research, Rajotte guides the research of masters and PhD students fortunate enough to come under his mentorship. Rajotte says he owes much to his own powerful mentor, the renowned Pere Athol Murray of Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Saskatchewan. He taught all his boys to set goals way high up and to strive for those goals, to do whatever you have to do to reach those goals.
Prairie perseverance is just their way.
Rajotte slowly built the team over the years with the long view of the farmer, knowing that as a basic scientist he would need clinical colleagues on board. And he is quick to point out that the Group's success was a collaborative effort. The uniqueness in Edmonton is that we have no walls. We all work together to cure this disease. He does not label the Edmonton Protocol a cure.