Robert Tjian doesn't eat breakfast or lunch. He claims he's watching his weight, but the truth, one suspects, is that food ranks low on his list of priorities. Tjian (pronounced "TEE-jen"), an HHMI investigator at the University of California, Berkeley, does confess to an all-consuming hunger, however. He's hooked—on data. "I have to have my hit of data every day," he says with a laugh. continued...

	Spawning a Start-up

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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin,
June 2002, pages 26-30.
©2002 Howard Hughes Medical Institute