Andre Fenton: The twisting road from basic brain research to helping malaria patients
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2013
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
André Fenton always wanted to do research at the most fundamental level -- to uncover basic truths about memory and how it works, never mind how useful. But a friend's accident unexpectedly leads to him inventing a spectacularly useful, and lifesaving, device.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it. |
| 0:07.0 | I felt right. |
| 0:08.0 | And I just thought, well. |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:13.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:19.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 0:30.2 | This week's story is from Andre Fenton. |
| 0:33.0 | The story was recorded in November 2012 at the Jerome L. Green Space in New York City as part of a partnership with Studio 360. |
| 0:41.3 | The theme of the event was Memory. |
| 0:44.3 | Good evening. So I was born in Guyana. That's a small country in the northeast corner of South America. |
| 0:57.8 | And about a year or so before I was born, Guyana gained its independence from England. |
| 1:04.4 | Well, luckily for me, my mother managed to get us out of Guyana. |
| 1:09.9 | And by the time I was seven, |
| 1:11.7 | I was happily growing up in Canada. |
| 1:14.9 | For the longest while, the way at least I remember it, |
| 1:20.1 | my family thought I would be a doctor, |
| 1:22.9 | a medical doctor, a useful kind of doctor. |
| 1:28.6 | According to them, the thinking at the time, |
| 1:32.4 | either being a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, |
| 1:37.5 | those were sort of the best we could hope for what we could aspire to. |
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