Word: limonta
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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...Limonta became director of the brand-new CIGB, which quickly grew into a sprawling research dynamo, one of more than two dozen Cuban institutes dedicated to the biological sciences. The center--along with its marketing arm, a quasi-corporate entity called Heber Biotec--now employs more than 1,200 technicians and scientists. "We don't have an institute of this size devoted to biotechnology in all Australia," marvels Peter Willadsen, a molecular biologist who directs a center on animal diseases in Indooroopilly, Australia...
...Cuban romance with biotechnology began in 1980, when a visiting U.S. physician regaled Castro with tales of the latest wonder drug, interferon. Intrigued, Castro directed Dr. Manuel Limonta, a young Cuban hematologist and immunologist, to set up a facility to manufacture the protein. At first, Limonta and his small staff used human blood cells to produce interferon. But soon the advantages of recombinant DNA technology became apparent, and Limonta started making interferon in giant vats of genetically engineered yeast...
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