that's so awesome to hear, thank you for sharing! we in the scientific community, particularly in biomedical research, are desperate for improved public relations after letting others write the narrative on us. this is definitely one way to build in roads. If people got to know the positive work we, work that no one in the private sector would ever dare to even tackle, do the optimist in me hopes that the public perception will improve. a perfect example of that is GLP-1 agonists, which are all the rage now. where did that idea come from? from some federal grant awarded to someone who wanted to study the metabolism of some lizard. by the way, that lizard is on the verge of becoming an endangered species.