And to understand what he's come up with, we first need to wrap our heads around how ischemic strokes are currently treated.

So the two current therapies that we have approved for stroke are about removing the clot.

And you can do that in two ways.

So there's a thing called thrombolysis or clot busting.

And so I often think of that as like a molecular Pac-Man that you inject into the bloodstream and it comes along and basically chews up the clot and allows the blood to return to the brain.

And the other option that we have is thrombectomy.

So actually going in and pulling the clot out.

Daniel books himself a ticket and hops over the pond to Boston.