SF Public Press - Mar 24 2011 -- With his ponytail and goatee, Kiel Copeland looks like your average lab geek almost as much as TV’s gleaming “CSI” laboratory resembles one in real life. Then again, he never aimed to be a lab nerd. Misfortune — and luck — brought him to where he is today, after losing his job when his employer went out of business. Now the 27-year-old former printing press operator is a team leader in a San Francisco company on the verge of a breakthrough with its revolutionary anti-viral drugs.
