Just Another Manic Monday

Monday marked the start of 'Home Week' when the population at the foundation campus swells so that meeting rooms and office space become highly sought after.  My work day was very varied; in the morning I wrote a presentation for a meeting later in the week, had a call with a prospective grantee to go over the details of their proposed budget, and then spent some time working on my diagnostics 'process project'. In the afternoon I met with a colleague in the 'Life Sciences Partnerships' group who is the foundation's primary contact with in vitro diagnostics manufacturers, attended a steering committee meeting for another 'process project' which included a very impressive modeling software demonstration, and then went to toast a departing colleague who is leaving the foundation to join a start-up consulting firm.  In the evening I joined what be the most complex teleconference I've ever been on, with people joining from across the US, Canada, Australia and Thailand.  The technology worked flawlessly!