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June 22, 2022: a huge "thank you" to a reader -- a landman -- for completing the loop. Alex is the son of Tom Ritter, one of the twins, Tim and Tom. Tim owns and operates Ritter Jewelry on Main Street, Williston, ND. Apparently Alex worked a couple of summers researching land records before moving on to bigger and better things.
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I would be curious, from a reader, if Alex Ritter is the great-grandson of Dr Ritter of Williston or somehow related in a different way.
From Concordia (some links may be duplicates):
Alex Ritter [Concordia College: 2009] is on a mission with a microscope.
As a postdoctoral research scientist at the biomedical company Genentech, the Williston, North Dakota, native has been working to capture the best possible images of the fight against cancer, right down to the individual cell.
That work was recently featured as the cover story for Science magazine, a leading scientific news outlet. Ritter and his partners had already done the work to make a flashy scene. They have been injecting a fluorescent protein into cancer cells and cytotoxic T Cells, the body’s natural disease killers, and using specialized microscopes to get a live and almost animated view of T cells attacking cancer cells.
He has seen cancer cells be destroyed but has also witnessed them repairing the damage. That might sound disheartening, but in the realm of research, being able to share that data helps other scientists develop more effective immunotherapies.
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