Randice-Lisa "Randi" Altschul

Born: 1960

Country of Birth: USA

Nationality: USA

Ethnicity: White

Montclair State College 1 semester

"“Palisades Therapeutics operates much like a brain trust, with more than 70 leading scientists, clinicians, physicians, and professionals working together without a salary to collegially make a difference in the world,” Ms. Altschul said. “The participants keep their day jobs, but lend their brains to Palisades Therapeutics to create, develop, prove out and protect the company’s technologies with intellectual property and to look to third parties to commercialize or acquire their products.” (jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com); “Things happen for a reason. It’s all part of the master plan. If I had not hit bottom, I would never have met Sandi [Peterson] and I never would have started the Pop Test company. I would never be — please God — saving lives with everything I’m doing at Palisades Therapeutics. . .You just have to follow the bread crumbs and pick them up. Because they’re all there. Life is just freaking incredible.” (jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com); “I’ve always said that I’ve made knowing nothing an art form. In everything that I do, God shoots the ideas into my head, and I make it happen. I liken myself to an orchestra leader. I don’t know how to play any instruments, but I know how to combine them all to make the music happen.” (jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com); "The greatest asset I have over everyone else in that business is my toy mentality," Altschul told the New York Times. "An engineer's mentality is to make something last, to make it durable. A toy's lifespan is about an hour, then the kid throws it away. You get it, you play with it and—boom—it's gone." "I'm going cheap and dumb," she told The Register. "In monetary terms, I want to be the next Bill Gates." (thoughtco.com); "

— Randice-Lisa "Randi" Altschul

Field of Study: Inventor; Entrepreneur

Institution/Corporation: Diceland Technologies; Palisades Therapeutics; Pop Test

Degrees & Memberships: None found

Awards: named a World's Notable Inventor by World Intellectual Property Organization

Achievements: founded Diceland Technologies & invented the disposable cell phone (1999) she named Phone-Card-Phone & was made entirely of recycled paper products; her board game Miami Vice was further developed into Grand Theft Auto: Vice City by Rockstar North; co-authored the novel Sorry, You Can't Enter Heaven with Katheleen Sahputis in 2008; developed a monster-shaped breakfast cereal which turned soft when covered in milk; invented Pop Test, the world’s first saliva-based glucose test for diabetes; founded a clinical think tank headquartered in Cliffside Park NJ; invented a programmable, customizable “smart pill” pills that can communicate with each other and prevent overdose, counterfeiting, theft, and diversion;