Johan treated me to lunch on a boat near the Vasa Museum. (Yet another excellent fish dish.) And yes, that is an orienteering map in the top photo. From Olympic gold medal to orienteering map. Super nice guy. Still cute.
He told me the truly amazing story of the Vasa wreck, complete with assumed-crazy guy who believed the boat was in the harbor (it was), and political history (even in the 1600s they had a pretty good legal system; they used to elect their kings for the period of one campaign).
He is the CEO of a small biotech company that has a cancer drug in phase II trials and it's looking good. Its target is the IGF-1 receptor; they designed an inhibitor to fit in some cleft that is not the ATPase site. Metabolic PET scanning shows the tumor becomes necrotic after treatment with their compound. His wife is an oncologist. His son goes to school in Cambridge MA and is a fencer. His daughter is 18; she lived in Italy last year and will live in Spain next year. He's on vacation and was about to head out to their vacation home in the archipelago.
Johan still is involved with fencing, on the national board or whatever. Also he coaches; he's been working with the junior girls who recently (last year?) were top in the world, ranked 1, 2, 5 and 7.
We agreed that we want to find a girlfriend for our mutual friend Geoff.