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From: Joichi Ito se>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 1:20 PM
To: jeffrey E.
Subject: Fwd: Introducing Dr. David Levy of OH2 Laboratories
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From: =/b>Shuguang Zhang t: c>
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Cc: David
Subject: =/b>Introducing Dr. =avid Levy of OH2 Laboratories
Date: =/b>October 27, 2014 at 24:31:02 =0400
Hi Joi,
Erling Norrby was very taken by your vision and ideas =onight. He said to me in the car he was so stimulated
and almost =elt intellectually intoxicated from the discussion at the dinner. =nbsp;
During =he dinner, I asked if you know some visionary angel investors who would =e interested in investing in
our universal code for protein =ngineering. If you know some, please introduce them to Dr. David =evy.
Dr. =avid Levy received all his 3 degrees, BS, MS and Ph.D. from MIT with =rof. Alex Slocum of Mechanical
Engineering.
Dr. David =evy who was the 1996 student Lemelson Prize winner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Levy_(inventor), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemelson—MIT_Prize#1996
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemelson%E2%80%93MIT_Prize#1996> =
Dr. =avid Levy is working with me to raise funding to carry out my frontier =esearch and invention of a universal
protein engineering code, I call =t QTY Code. Not only this work will have big impact to generate =ew knowledge, but it
will also accelerate drug discovery and truly =ersonalized medicine (not just sequencing the genes, but use individual
=ersonal protein to treat disease).
Dr. David Levy can give you more information, and I =an certainly give your visionary angel more detailed
science and =echnology about the universal code for protein engineering. =nbsp;
David is =he head of a new entity OH2 that specifically sport my research 1) on =he universal code for protein
engineering with far reaching =mplications; 2) develop olfactory-receptor based sensing device. =nbsp;
http://oh2lab-public.weebly.com/
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Sanofi, the 3rd largest =harma in the world, has visited me twice. As soon as David and =anofi sign a NDA and
they will come back to us soon. Ajinomoto =ame twice.
We had a =reakthrough last Wednesday, by using the yeast 2-hybrid screen system, =ur code-designed water-
soluble =XCR4 interacted with its natural ligand in yeast and activated the =ene transcription. We changed 23% of the
CXCR4 protein, but =he variants still remain biologically functional. Most =eople would consider it a crazy idea.
Alex Rich and Bob Langer are very pleased. =nbsp;Erling Norrby fully understands its significance and
=mplications. we will have a very nice paper after we do 3 more =ibraries. Then no one can say "you are lucky". We =ill
also get good investment to commercialize and license the =echnology.
Dr. David Levy invented the first Apple =aptop keyboard, now universally adopted for all laptop computers.
=nbsp;Here is a photo of him with his first 1987 prototype. =nbsp;
Shuguang
"If you ask big questions, you get big answers"
Francis Crick
Shuguang Zhang, =h.D.
Laboratory of Molecular Architecture
Center for Bits and Atoms
Massachusetts =nstitute of Technology
20 Ames Street, Wiesner =edia Lab Building
E1S-401 (Office), E15-015 (Lab)
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA
Tel:
E-mail:
Webpage: http://cba.mit.edurshuguang/
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