Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien were responsible for the discovery of a substance called green fluorescent protein, and its development into an important tool of modern biology.
The Vatican does not often react to science in the news this rapidly, and certainly not to be as positive as it was about a ground-breaking development in the emerging field of synthetic biology.
This meant building a team of anywhere from ten to fifty people to deal with all the complexities of the process: chemistry, biology, regulatory affairs, clinical medicine, finance, business development, patent strategy, etc.