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Join us on Zoom for a conversation with author Patrick Girondi, discussing his new memoir, Flight of the Rondone.
This event will be broadcast live on Zoom. Registration and an email address are required to receive the link to participate.
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About the author:
Patrick Finley Girondi, originally from the South Side of Chicago, is an Italian American singer songwriter, author, and founder of San Rocco Therapeutics. Girondi has released five music a lbums and is the author of Diamond in the Rough He has led his company, San Rocco Therapeutics, since 1993, with the mission to cure Sickle Cell Disease
Thalassemia.
Flight of the Rondone is a story of love, luck, and beating the odds, all told with little regard for empire or etiquette. As Girondi points out: “I’m just an average dad. Any parent would do the same if they had the means.”
Girondi founded San Rocco Therapeutics (formerly Errant Gene Therapeutics) in 1993. Over the years he raised funds from friends and angel investors. One of Girondi’s angels was John Walton of Walmart. To respect his investors, Girondi never took a paycheck. The motto for his life became, “A wasted dollar is one less for research.” This obviously didn’t sit well with many modern CEOs.
San Rocco Therapeutics produced the world’s first commercial b atch of gene therapy vector in 2010. Girondi and his team were jubilant, confident that Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia were at the cusp of being defeated. They then confronted an unexpected enemy more lethal than the disease itself, goliaths of the pharma industry intent on stealing from and destroying the company.
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