Word: merck
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Thus, Jacobsen's development allows scientists to use the catalyst in the lab, and is currently being used by drug companies like Merck to produce drug candidates to fight AIDS...
...many who have worked with him, Wigand possesses great integrity and refuses to engage in corporate gamesmanship. "If someone hands him a line of crap, he says, 'That's a line of crap,'" says Richard O'Leary, a psychologist and colleague of Wigand's in the 1980s at E. Merck Diagnostic Systems. Although O'Leary says his colleague was sometimes impatient, "I have never known him to cross the line into abusive behavior...
...report from Merck that a second drug, indinavir, used in combination with two other drugs, AZT and 3TC, reduced the levels of HIV in the blood of 24 patients an unprecedented 1,000 times...
...have scrambled to get into the race," notes Ed Hurwitz, an analyst for Robertson, Stephens & Co. The list of recent mergers, as Hurwitz ticks them off, reads like a Who's Who of biotechnology: "Sandoz buys Genetics Institute. Chiron buys Viagene. Bristol Myers makes a big investment in Somatix. Merck makes a big investment in Vical. Rhone-Poulenc invests in Applied Immune Sciences and several other gene-therapy companies...
Goaded partly by moral arguments and partly by a desire to stay on good terms with the governments of these countries, several companies have signed agreements to share any profits they make from local biological resources. Merck, for example, worked out a deal with Costa Rica that lets its investigators screen that nation's flora and fauna for potential new drugs, and Shaman Pharmaceuticals has similar agreements with a dozen countries...