Impatience Is a Virtue for This Innovative UA Freshman
Oct. 25, 2017
Jeremiah Pate refused to wait until after graduation to found a company, and now he is designing satellites that can explore asteroids and proteins that can battle Parkinson's disease.
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Jeremiah Pate inspects fruit flies under a microscope in the Zarnescu lab. (Photo: Emily Walla/UANews)
University of Arizona freshman Jeremiah Pate doesn't believe the cliché about patience.
"Impatience is a virtue," says Pate, a biomedical engineering major in the UA College of Engineering and founder of a company called Lunasonde. Pate was told to wait until after earning a bachelor's degree to start a company, and told to wait until graduate school to start research on a potential therapy for Parkinson's disease.
Instead, he acted.
I have the chance now. I can accomplish this now," Pate said.