The Founder

THE MAKING OF A PIONEER

As a top Soviet doctor, Dr. X participated in the advanced research that his team conducted as a continuation of the work of their pioneering predecessors.

Dr. X had achieved a rare place of honor in the Soviet medical hierarchy. He was the youngest of the leading doctors serving the Soviet Olympic team. The Olympians were a source of enormous national pride inside the Soviet Union — and a vital weapon in the ideological war with the West. For decades, scientists had labored to turn their top athletes into super- humans. As the world watched the Soviets sweep up more and more medals (96 in 1964 alone), it became clear their work was paying off.

Dr. X migrated to the United States in the early 1980s, taking nothing from decades of research but what he held in his own mind. From that point on, he dedicated almost four decades of his life to achieve the maximum possible impact from the application of stem cells. Throughout this process, he has always acknowledged the foundations laid by his Soviet predecessors.