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...Biogen Inc. proposed the tax break to the council in a petition outlining plans for a 130,000 square-feet expansion. In exchange for the tax break, the company said it will work in conjunction with city agencies to hire as many Cantabrigians as possible for jobs created from the expansion...
Gilbert shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering a rapid method to decode base sequenced in DNA and then applying in to produce materials like interferon and insulin. He also served' as chair of Biogen, a biotechnology firm based in both Geneva and Cambridge...
...very positive announcement," said James L. Vincent, chief executive officer of Biogen, a Cambridge pharmaceutical firm. "It's important not only for biotechnology, but for all the drug industry...
...When Biogen came in in the early 1980s, it was a big wasteland. Now, everyone wants to be in Cambridge. It will always be where everyone wants to be," says Peter Feinstein, administrative director of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council...
...powerful lure for faculty and potential faculty. The new commercial venture could act as an incentive for professors to stay here, rather than venture into the for-profit world as Professor Walter Gilbert did in 1980 when he resigned from the faculty to work at Biogen. And Harvard's plan could play a more noble role by accelerating the development of important medical cures and technologies...