Cracking the Code, narrated by Mark Ruffalo, is an inspiring story of vision, perseverance, and the power of science to change the world. Phil Sharp’s journey from a Kentucky farm boy to Nobel laureate embodies the American Dream and the triumph of entrepreneurial spirit.

His 1977 groundbreaking discovery of RNA splicing rewrote the rules of molecular biology and ignited a life-saving scientific revolution, laying the foundation for an industry that has become a cornerstone of global innovation and economic growth – and transformed the health of billions of patients worldwide.

Director Biography - Bill Haney

Bill Haney is a filmmaker, inventor, and entrepreneur.

As a writer, director, and producer of documentary films, he has won The Gabriel Prize, A Silver Hugo, The Earthwatch Award, A Marine Conservation Award, the Golden Owl and an Amnesty International Award. Chosen as Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, he has won a Humanitarian Award from Harvard Medical School, a Distinguished Service Award from the Senior Olympics, the Slow Food Prize, a Genesis Award, an Achievement Award from the ACLU, been repeatedly nominated for a NAACP Image Award, been short listed for an Oscar and won the Pare Lorentz Award. He has also written and produced several award-winning narrative films.

Bill’s first invention was a system for reducing air pollution from power plants now used across the world; he holds more than 200 granted or pending patents.

He has started more than a dozen companies and is presently the CEO of Dragonfly Therapeutics and Skyhawk Therapeutics, Boston-based biotechs building novel drugs to treat cancer, autoimmune disease, and neurological disease. Nine of these drugs are presently treating patients.

Bill was a founding member of the national environmental advisory board for the US Environmental Protection Agency, the President's Circle for the National Academy of Sciences, and serves or has served on a variety of non-profit and government boards including for Harvard’s Kennedy School, MIT, State and Federal Government agencies, the World Wildlife Fund, US DOE, the World Resources Institute, and the NRDC. He is a founder and Chairman Emeritus of World Connect, a non-profit dedicated to improving the health and welfare of mothers and children in the developing world, with programs now launched in more than 2000 villages in 42 countries.

Bill is a graduate of Harvard College and served as a Fellow of Harvard's Kennedy School. He and his wife Maura live happily near Fenway Park, in Boston, MA.