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Because of this rule, Gilbert last March announced that he will leave the Faculty in order to devote himself full time to Biogen, a company he founded several years ago. Gilbert had tried to balance his teaching responsibilities with his duties as chief executive officer of the firm, but admitted, "you can't do both at once." Although Rosovsky says the University regretted losing the renowned researcher, he added "[Both he and I] were clear about what our rules are and he could not stay with those rules...
...informal University policy forbidding professors from serving as operating officers of companies forced Nobel laureate Walter Gilbert to announce his departure this spring. Gilbert had tried to balance his teaching responsibilities with his duties as chief executive officer of Biogen, but admitted 'you can't do both at once...
...conviction that Harvard has not lost any of its tenured scientists to better paying jobs in industry, although they acknowledge that many junior professors make that jump. Here, the name Walter Gilbert comes up: another Nobel Laureate, Gilbert announced this year his plans to leave the Faculty to run Biogen, the genetic engineering company he founded. Gilbert's case is a special one, administrators say--he was not strictly lured away by industry...
...four scientists are not unique in their venture. All along Mass Ave and Mt. Auburn St. new companies are springing to life--Biogen and Biotechnica, Genetics Institute and Software Options, Inc. Most of the new companies deal in genetics, diagnostics and computer software--and they are luring topnotch Harvard scholars away from more traditional consulting roles and persuading them to take major, if part-time, responsibilities in as yet untested firms. So far, between 25 and 40 members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences alone have joined the ranks. What do these Faculty members find so enticing? In almost...
...their technological developments in the most lucrative, convenient and logical places possible: profit-making industries. They have been actively sought. Many of the newly emerging firms list top-university faculty members among their founders. At Harvard: Walter Gilbert, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology and chairman of Biogen, Inc.; Mark Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and founder of Genetics Institute; and Thomas Roberts, assistant professor of pathology at the Medical School and one of the principal movers behind Biotechnica...