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...Despite their contribution to science, Stossel says his colleagues’ practices at Biogen would have violated current conflict of interest codes today...
...Stossel says he first learned about industry’s impact on the medical profession after joining the advisory board of Biogen Idec Inc., a Cambridge biotechnology company...
Corralling clumps of misshapen protein could open the way not just to diagnosis but also to treatment. In August, Amorfix partnered with Biogen Idec of Cambridge, Mass., to pursue treatment for ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, with the goal of blocking the protein from misfolding in the first place. "It's just the most awful disease, and the most challenging," says Cashman, who runs an ALS clinic in Vancouver, where he is research chairman of neurology at the University of British Columbia's department of medicine. "It may sound trite, but I want to make a difference, and this...
...back Cetus' rambling research to focus on projects with the most commercial potential. The company is now testing its version of interferon, a promising anticancer agent, and hopes to have the product on the market in two years. But at least five other firms, including Genentech and Geneva-based Biogen, are also in the interferon race...
...example, faculty-launched Biogen Idec—the third-largest biotech firm in the world—employs 1,400 in the Boston area...