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Old May 7th, 2021 #169
Stewart Meadows
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Martine Rothblatt: She founded SiriusXM, a religion and a biotech. For starters.


By Neely Tucker
December 12, 2014

Let’s be clear: Martine Rothblatt is just plain more of a lawyer than anybody else in this town.

The 60-year-old grandmother and CEO of United Therapeutics, the Silver Spring-based biotech she founded to help save her younger daughter’s life, banked $38 million last year. It made her the nation’s highest-paid female executive. It also made her the nation’s highest-paid transgendered person, as she had sex reassignment surgery in 1994.

In a lab on Spring Street, Rothblatt’s newest project appears lifted from science fiction: disembodied but breathing human lungs, hissing away in dome-shaped incubators, part of a clinical trial attempting to mend donated but not-quite-accepted-for-transplant lungs so that they can actually be placed in living human beings.

On a Virginia farm, she’s also raising genetically altered pigs, in the hope that someday their lungs (and other organs) will be modified for use in human transplant, creating a nearly inexhaustible supply of organ donors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...ab6_story.html

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Martine Aliana Rothblatt (born October 10, 1954)[4] is an American lawyer, author, entrepreneur, and transgender rights advocate.[5] Rothblatt graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with J.D. and M.B.A. degrees in 1981, then began to work in Washington, D.C., first in the field of communications satellite law, and eventually in life sciences projects like the Human Genome Project.[6]
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Born as Martin Rothblatt to a Jewish family in Chicago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine_Rothblatt

"Martine" Rothblatt (the one on the right):