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rilliant as they may be, artists and academics are not necessarily known for their business sense. It’s a fact not lost on the likes of some
exceptionally powerful people. Entertainment mogul David Geffen, for example, got his start bridging the gap between the business world and the musical one — it was a bridge that built careers of a generation of singer-songwriters of the 1970s. In a similar way comes one of Brunswick’s own,
B y Ka t h e r i n e O g d e n and Jennifer Moore Stahlkrantz
David Darst ’00. A Harvard AB and MBA who launched his first company while still a teenager, Darst today has his sights set on solving one of the biggest problems in medicine: Halting metastatic progression in cancer patients. His strategy? End the bottleneck that keeps brilliant university science from seeing the light of day — be the bridge from scientific research in academia to the business world and the markets beyond, getting important
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