The Daily Gazette profiles entrepreneur Chris Macomber '05, a fourth-year medical student and co-founder of Opthera, a biomedical company with exclusive rights to a patent for the use of ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (UV LEDS) in tanning beds and medical phototherapy, or light therapy, to treat the debilitating disease lupus.
At Union, Macomber won the Josephine Daggett Prize, awarded to the senior of best conduct and character. He was also co-chair of the Student Alumni Association and involved with the Dutch Pipers, the College's male a cappella group.
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