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Christopher F. Gabrieli ’81, a biotech entrepreneur and friend of Menino who recently made an unsuccessful run for Mass. Lieutenant Governor, agrees...
...does Massachusetts bolster the biotech industry?” Gabrieli asks. “Not by writing checks, but by providing intellectual leadership and partnerships...
...that's just for starters. Epicyte is one of a host of biotech companies that have seized on the information in the map of the human genome--a map that was officially declared complete last month--to create all manner of plant-based pharmaceuticals. Researchers have launched more than 300 trials of genetically engineered crops to produce everything from fruit-based hepatitis vaccines to AIDS drugs grown in tobacco leaves. They call this biopharming...
...female" professions tend to offer more flexible hours. Ron Patrizio, 43, a biotech-firm sales rep in Central Florida, got sick of his old routine. He spent much of his time wining and dining doctors, hoping they would prescribe his firm's drugs. He made as much as $67,000 a year, and constantly accompanied clients to operas and hockey games. "But you have no life," he says. "You live and die by how many vials of insulin you sell that month. They expected you to schmooze 24-7." On a whim, he took a class in massage therapy...
...will the search for a vaccine. The biotech company GenVec announced plans last week to collaborate with NIAID to insert portions of the coronavirus genome into a weakened cold virus. If the proteins generated by these snippets are powerful enough to trigger an effective immune response, then the resulting vaccine might be successful. NIAID is also coordinating separate U.S. government efforts to develop vaccine candidates. And the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Disease is screening thousands of compounds to see if any might slow or stop the disease...