"After many years of basic, translational and clinical research on methadone all — supported by NIDA — I experienced that a ha moment of recognizing a potential opportunity to apply the findings to benefit patients at scale. The NIDA-sponsored participation in the MIT SUD Ventures Bootcamp was the critical catalyst which ignited the inspiration and commitment to pursue commercializing our research findings into better treatments for opioid use disorder.”

“The program has been totally exhausting, totally energizing, and totally inspiring. I have made great relationships that I know will be enduring — personally and professionally. I’m energized to search for novel solutions, not only commercially, but in my clinical research and practice, too.”

"One of the things MIT Bootcamps does really well is bring multiple disciplines to innovate together. We have seen a lot of silo innovation happening [in health care]. We have also seen problems being solved in piecemeal. How can we come together as a collective force — clinician and entrepreneur, a technologist, someone who has gone through this experience themselves — to build a solution?"

"This MIT Bootcamp shook everything upside down and has given me the spirit of innovation and what it looks like to be able to work in a big way, and to be able to think in an even bigger way."