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What these professors have, up to this point, is a microbe
that is capable of degrading the herbicide Atrazine.
And our basic plan is to take that and use it on a filter.
So we're creating a water filter
to filter drinking water for municipalities.
So, we're at the beginning of taking basic research
and turning it into a prototype.
It's always been kind of a goal,
a plan of mine to start a company.
Especially with the uncertainty around the job market,
it's a great thing to be able
to take your destiny into your own hands.
The university really makes this possible for any student
that goes here to do the same thing with these resources
across a lot of the different schools and colleges,
institutes at the university have helped us on everything
from legal questions in the law school to technical questions
to business questions in the business school.
I think it's a lot of us to take a university technology
and make a commercially viable product
that addresses a public health concern.