Oh my gosh I love the twists and turns you've noted above. SO MUCH FUN! I like the father figure in the background, puppetteering us all along. Lovely!

I'll assume that we are scientist at heart and surgeons by trade?

The relationship will bloom I'm sure simply due to the nature of the story and the need to be close to someone who really understands you and doesn't judge you. Like I said, we'll have a bit of trouble from my characters father as well being a catholic priest and all. :P Bring us some solid religious elements to deal with which should be fun. 

I think I'll have her pulled from her position at the hospital by the government because they understand that she is researching advanced genetic creation and mutation and wants her to work on the Lazarus project (great name btw - love the reference). Her assistant can most certainly be in intern that shows promising capabilities and such from Harvard or Yale and has a professor that pulls a few strings. He'd be 4-6 years younger than my MC, but I'd love to see your MC in the future be the same age if not a little older. Doable?

I think the project the government will pull us for (initially) will be one focused on utilizing various donor parts to create a human from scratch, not a clone, but a fully functional male. Something very akin to the original frankenstein and yet we can have fun dealing with how we get the parts, bending our morals and ethics here and there and wondering the possible outcomes for something so deep and powerful. 

Agreed totally on the Cs. What other details do we need? I'm not familiar with Oregon, but I'll do a little research to gather my bearings. I'm thinking lets stick to the 1980's or should we jump into the future?

Sounds like a great day. I just finished up all my duties and then some... *sigh*