After years working in labs finding out the cell cycle and the genetics of human illness, Gennaro D’Urso based Genetic Networks, a for-profit firm targeted on drug discovery. As a youngster, D’Urso misplaced imaginative and prescient in each of his eyes on account of a mysterious eye situation. He later acquired his first corneal transplant, which allowed him to regain 20/20 imaginative and prescient in one in every of his eyes. This occasion led him to modify majors from enterprise to science, and he finally obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics.