This surfer is serious, dude

Biotech expert knows waves, too

By Will Kilburn

Globe Correspondent / April 10, 2005

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Surfers tend to have a reputation for not taking things too seriously -- except, of course, surfing. But one local surfer has defied that stereotype: Zev Gartner, who came to Boston for graduate school at Harvard, picked up a doctorate in chemistry and chemical biology, helped develop an approach to synthesizing organic molecules now used by a biotech startup in ... (Full article: 690 words)