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...streamlined the organization, ending an unwieldy division between operations in Italy and Switzerland, and in 2000 he listed Serono on the New York Stock Exchange. Most riskily, he steered Rebif through a contentious approval process in the U.S. that involved taking on an already authorized rival treatment by Biogen in a head-to-head clinical trial--and winning. Biogen had enjoyed a temporary monopoly in the U.S. for its Avonex product under the FDA's "orphan drug" program, meant to encourage research into treatments for uncommon diseases. Serono broke the monopoly, proving by trial that its drug was more effective...
...past, the subcommittee has met in City Hall and pointedly asked university representatives not to attend. The meeting next week is the first slated to include Harvard and MIT officials and will be held on neutral ground, in the Kendall Square offices of the Biogen company...
Here in Cambridge, a new industry is quietly taking shape that proposes to do that on a grand scale, as companies with names like Biogen, Genzyme, Genetics Institute and Millennium Pharmaceuticals--Zeus' home--prepare to change forever the way doctors fight disease. They're not alone: spurred by the prospect of scientific glory and enormous profit, big pharmaceutical firms and university and government labs have been joined by scores of new companies, not just in Cambridge but in Montgomery County, Md., Silicon Valley and other high-tech hot spots around the nation. It's a virtual gold rush to mine...
...return for their sponsorship, about 20 companies, such as Biospace.com, Biogen and Digizyme, receive exposure on the club's website and access to the club's internal resume database, depending on the level of sponsorship...
...presented Biogen, the oldest company of its kind in the U.S., with a national medal of Technology, an honor equally as prestigious as the medal for science, even thought it was established more recently...