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Impatience Is a Virtue for This Innovative UA Freshman

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Impatience Is a Virtue for This Innovative UA Freshman

Oct. 25, 2017
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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.

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.