The Oldie

BILL KNOTT

Greg Lambrecht knows his needles.

Trained in medicine, in the 1990s he developed a smart way of delivering chemotherapy to children with leukaemia without traumatising skin tissue. Since then, he says, ‘I got really good at making needles that didn’t damage things.’

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