THE NEXT DAY OUR IRB application was approved. We had submitted it on Tuesday, and it was approved on Wednesday, an unheard-of turnaround time. Hurley may not have dozens of NIH-funded researchers and an entire building dedicated solely to research, but we don’t have the sputtering and stalling bureaucracy that often comes with all that either. We are small and lean and responsive. Everyone knows everyone. And the credibility that Jenny and I had built over the years carried weight.
