Word: immunogen
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Also on Wednesday, Mitchel Sayare, CEO of ImmunoGen, Inc., said the American university system, which is vital to this country's biotechnology industry, is "in danger" because of dwindling government funding for university-based research...
...company has its heart and soul in Cambridge. Many people come out of the MIT environment. We have no immediate plans or distant plans to have the corporate center enaywhere else than Cambridge. Massachusetts," says Mitchell Sayare, the chief executive officer of the locally-based Immunogen...
...trouble erupts over DDI, Dr. Jonas Salk of polio-vaccine fame has a different idea. He thinks AIDS patients may be able to boost their resistance through injections of his Salk HIV immunogen (which consists of inactivated pieces of the virus). Tests with 90 AIDS volunteers at the University of Southern California's cancer center have shown promise, and Salk hopes for a breakthrough similar to his victory over polio in 1955. Last week the Food and Drug Administration approved nationwide trials of the Salk immunogen...
...addition, Salk has asked the state of California for permission to inject his immunogen into ten volunteers who are free of AIDS. He theorizes that the volunteers' immune system will develop antibodies that may provide resistance- building injections for AIDS patients, and that this could eventually lead to an AIDS-prevention vaccine. Confident of the low risks, Salk himself plans to participate, just as he did when developing his polio vaccine...