Inspiration

Juststardust. The name.

There is a tremendous amount of scientific exploration ongoing regarding STARDUST, a fraction of all Cosmic Dust grains reaching our planet Earth every day.

At first sight many things may appear just simple, just stardust originating from exploding stars, how difficult can it be? Until you start to study things in more detail.

Then it appears that just stardust can be distinguished by it's location, as intergalactic dust, interstellar dust, interplanetary dust ( including comet dust, asteroidal dust ), circumplanetary dust, and more.

Although all cosmic dust grains are tiny, between 0.1 pg and 0.1 g, it can be collected with stratospheric airplanes, from ice masses, from deep sea sediments, from meteorites, or for example, using specific space missions.

Then, studying some more detail, it appears that cosmic dust may contain heavy metals, isotopes, polycyclic hydrocarbons, possibly connected to the formation of more complex organic molecules, and the origin of life as we know it.

All of us contain elements, like calcium, iron, phosphorous, once formed by nuclear fusion reactions in distant stars, so , without stardust we as human beings, and life as we know it, would not exist.

As our entire solar system, and life, once started as just dust, its good to know that our planet Earth will again return to dust in the distant future, once our own Sun transitions to it's red giant phase, and will consume our planet. Dust to dust.

All things appear simple at first sight, until you take a closer look.

For decades I’ve been very interested in anything related to our Universe, and the origin of our human consciousness, our role as observers and trying to make sense of it all.

Juststardust. The logo.

The Juststardust LOGO, contains all these elements, a distant galaxy, it's shape based on 2 Fibonacci spirals, containing billions of stars and many exploding stars. Yellow Stardust, with a graphic representation of a hexagonal molecular structure, as a basic structure for our most important organic molecules. Such as DNA building blocks.

Our blue planet Earth which travels through space, created from cosmic dust, and still collecting cosmic dust.

The letters from the company name Juststardust are backtilted, as all Star Wars movies start with this opening crawl, which recedes to a central point on the screen before disappearing. The Star Wars text scrolls up and away, from the bottom of the screen towards a vanishing point.

The overal shape of the Logo represents the pyramids, with their many unanswered questions. Some say the positions of the Pyramids on the Giza Plateau are aligned with the three stars in Orion’s belt, based on ancient observations of the stars, but this is, probably, just a story.

On a background of blue night sky, the Stardust particles appear in Imperial Yellow. Imperial Yellow, not only represents “ Earth “ in traditional Chinese art and culture, but this specific reddish yellow colour also became the protected emblem of the Chinese emperor.

Juststardust. The passion.

There is a tremendous unmet medical need. Not only with respect to diseases for which there is no adequate treatment available, despite decades of medical research.

This is multifactorial, for some indications it's just difficult to develop efficacious new medicines. Sometimes however it's a lack of commercial interest, a lack of sufficient resources in healthcare settings, or a lack of sufficient budget for treatment with newly developed Biologics.

Sometimes patients find themselves in a “ maze “ following their contacts with multiple healthcare providers, and will look for alternative treatments, such as Acupuncture or Reiki based healing. And why not, these alternative Chinese treatments have been developed over millennia and work well, however this does not mean we should not make every effort to advance pharmacological therapies.

Although development of new innovative medicines is extremely important, it’s equally important to develop Biosimilar compounds that will improve access to new and affordable Biological therapies for patients worldwide.

Based on 40 years of, mostly Early Phase, clinical development experience, building and leading Early Phase Clinics, it is my passion to support the Pharmaceutical and Biotech companies, as well as Contract Research Organizations, to develop both innovative and Biosimilar medicines.

This includes any meaningful advice, either strategic or more pragmatic, with the ultimate objective to improve patient lives.

Looking forward to develop new collaborations!

Even if only 1 single patient would experience a better Quality of Life as a result of our collaboration, it’s just worth it.