Word: biogen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Biochemistry and recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, however told members of the city's biohazards committee that the research and small scale manufacturing at the facility proposed by Biogen, Inc., would be safe...
...sides squared off for three hours in the city council chambers, testifying before a meeting of the biohazards subcommittee which will make a recommendation to the city on the Biogen case sometime in the next few weeks...
...Alfred A. Vellucci--who led the fight fours years ago against DNA research in the city--has already promised to ask for a city wide ban on P-3 level research (the second highest level of security) by private concerns within the city, a rule that might interfere with Biogen's operations...
Unlike Harvard and MIT, though, Biogen has some leverage in the debate. Should the city council start to raise a stink, company officials hint they will leave...
...have several viable options," Muller said, and his threat may carry some weight--should Biogen pull out, it would take with it about 100 potential jobs, including 50 blue collar positions...