Scientist’s drive for a cancer cure inspired by the father he doesn’t remember An honor to photograph this brilliant man for STAT News: “MIT Technology Review recognized [Zhen] Gu as one of the world’s top 35 innovators under 35, putting him in the company of previous winners Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page. “I would not hesitate to say that Zhen is one of the most creative people with whom I have ever worked,” said renowned MIT inventor Bob Langer, who nominated his protégé for the honor. “Zhen never seems to run out of ideas.”[...] Gu has also wrapped drugs in cocoons made of DNA and encased them in orbs of liquid metal. He has even drawn inspiration from our own bodies by cloaking cancer drugs in the membranes of platelets, the cells that keep us from bleeding to death from a cut or scrape.” All images © 2016 Justin Cook Documentary Photography. All rights reserved. No reproduction without permission.