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...Stanley Hoffmann, Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France, who also argued against ROTC in 1969, now says "if some kind of loose association were to be proposed, it's possible that we could arrange something" between Harvard and ROTC...
...Faculty ruling was based on strong anti-war sentiment and on the student mood at the time. Hoffmann adds. Today, "the number of people who would be against ROTC on principle wouldn't be as large," he says, adding. "There must be a response to student demand, to student wishes...
Genentech Inc. was co-founded in 1976, in South San Francisco, by Venture Capitalist Robert Swanson, 32, and University of California Biochemist Herbert Boyer, 44. The company now has a staff of 200. It has signed research agreements with several large pharmaceutical houses, including Hoffmann-La Roche and A.B. Kabi, and leads all gene-splicing firms by offering half a dozen products. Among them: several types of interferon, one of which is now undergoing clinical trials. Genentech is also collaborating with another leading drug company, Eli Lilly, on mass production of human insulin. Last week Genentech announced its latest gene...
Bitter legal disputes have already broken out. The University of California has sued Hoffmann-La Roche and Genentech on charges that a line of cells they use to produce a type of interferon was first created in the university's San Francisco labs (Genentech's Boyer was, and still is, a top researcher at U.C.S.F.). That case is still pending in the courts. But another squabble with the university has already cost Genentech $350,000, plus future royalty payments to the school. The money was awarded to the university for work done by one of its researchers on a hormone...
Horrobin claims that his work and press interviews on the tranquilizer led to his being forced out of a research position at the University of Montreal in 1979. Hoffmann-La Roche, the maker of Valium, was quick to dispute his findings last week. Among rats that spontaneously developed cancer, says the company, there was no speed-up in tumor growth when they were given Valium. Moreover, notes Hoffmann-La Roche, human epidemiological studies have revealed no link between cancer and Valium use. That argument, says Horrobin, is irrelevant since such surveys have measured only the incidence of cancer...