Humanitarian of the Year: Christina Galitsky, 33

Articles — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:01:00 -0400

Back in graduate school, Christina Galitsky could boil her life’s work down into something like the title of a journal article: "The reversibility of proteins absorbing onto a surface," she says. But since she dropped off the Ph.D. track and, later, took a job up the hill at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the question "What do you do?" has turned into a stumper. "I guess now I say, I try and work on ... sort of innovative solutions to ... wait, what do I say?" she says with a laugh.

Officially, Galitsky spends about two-thirds of her time developing tools to… more

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Humanitarian of the Year: Christina Galitsky, 33