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Currently, several members of the genetics department at Massachusetts General Hospital are conducting a 10-year cancer research project funded by a $50 million grant from Hoechst Chemical Corp., a Frankfurt-based international chemical and pharmaceutical company...
...Part of the contract is that we are an academic department and that we do basic research," said Howard M. Goodman, professor of genetics, who is in charge of the project. "We feel no pressure whatsoever, and Hoechst has no influence whatsoever on the kinds of projects our people are working on," he said...
Under the arrangement Hoechst A.G. of West Germany provides a 10 year $50 million grant to support research into recombination DNA In return, the firm receives the right to profit first from any research results, though MGH will hold all patents on discoveries...
...condemning drugmakers, Silverman is a persistent gadfly, but an influential one. Among his targets are the biggest drug producers in the world. Switzerland's Ciba-Geigy, fourth in sales in the indus try, is accused in the report of dumping 30th clioquinol and aminopyrine. The West German giant Hoechst and E.R. Squibb and Sons, Inc., of Princeton, N.J., are charged with selling tetracycline in Southeast Asia without sufficient warnings that the antibiotic can discolor children's teeth. California-based Syntex Corp. is taken to task for failing to publish standard warnings on birth control pills sold in Singapore...
...focused on isolated offenses and ignored the major obstacles that drug companies face in the Third World. Some of those problems: distributing drugs to patients who may live far from medical centers; keeping vaccines refrigerated in jungle outposts; teaching uneducated patients how to take medicines. Dow, Parke-Davis and Hoechst maintain they have uniform policies on drug information worldwide. Any abuses, they say, originate within the importing countries. Syntex and Squibb note that warnings for their products have been omitted by local drug manuals. "We are not responsible for what the guides will print," said a Squibb spokesman...