Last year, Brian, one of the two founders, was thirteen days away from defending his doctoral thesis in chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute, in La Jolla, when his adviser discovered that he was planning to leave academia and start a biotech company.

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Icahn and his team did their research, and in March he laid out his thesis to Nathan Vardi and I.

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If you want to slog through it, the thesis is here and some other relevant research is here.

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Other research supports the "work hard, play hard" thesis.

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This "would only exacerbate our thesis of capital pressures, " Whitney said in her research note.

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They come by their thesis from their work interpreting images of a wide range of patients' innards and from their own research.

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