Page 82 of The Bone Code
“I was so caught up here I forgot to call her.”
“She won’t like that.”
“Nope,” I agreed, feeling a bit guilty.
“Did you find him?”
“Oh, yeah.”
Joining me at the table, Ryan leaned back and assumed a listening expression.
“Huger goes by Sullie.”
“Of course he does.”
“I found quite a few articles about him. Most include the words ‘genius’ and ‘brilliant’ somewhere in the text.”
“Genius at what?”
Picking up my semi-shorthand notes, I cherry-picked highlights.
“Huger was born in 1964. Earned two PhDs from UNC–Chapel Hill in 1990 and 1991.”
“At the ripe old age of twenty-six.”
“Yep.”
“In what?”
“Biochemistry and software engineering.”
“So the guy’s no dummy.”
“I told you. He’s a genius.”
“And brilliant.”
“Right out of grad school, Huger went to work for the Human Genome Project, which was just starting up.”
Ryan looked a question at me.
“You’ve not heard of it?”
“Heard, yes. Taken notes, no.”
“The goal was to sequence the whole human genome and identify all the genes it contains.”
“Ambitious.”
“It was.”
“Who ran it?”
“The National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Energy coordinated, but the effort was international in scope.”
“Did they succeed?”
“The project finished in 2003, two years ahead of schedule.”
