This has a touching backstory on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8050106

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038113

I didn't realize that he had switched fields and moved. That info is here:

https://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/latest/item/1411-white-hou...

and http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2016/03/24/interview-matt-might..., via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11366150