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Where Gilmartin is today is atop Merck & Co., the fastest-growing of the world's major pharmaceutical companies. Since joining Merck as CEO in June of 1994, Gilmartin has overseen an epic turnaround in the century-old giant. Last year, he led the $114 billion company to 45 percent return to shareholders, and Business Week ranked Merck number one in its industry--and sixth overall--among the Standard & Poor's 500 corporations...
...success is especially significant considering that he had no experience in the pharmaceutical industry before becoming Merck's chief executive. Gilmartin's previous position was head of medical device manufacturer Becton-Dickinson and Company, which he joined in 1976 after serving as their strategic management consultant...
...this experience that Merck apparently needed, Gilmartin says, since he was the first outsider in history brought in to steer the New Jersey-based corporation...
Huber's speech, "Structure and Function of Large Proteins and Protein Assemblies by X-Ray Crystallography and Electron Microscopy," was the 1997 Max Tishler Prize Lecture, established in 1951 by an award from the Merck Sharp & Dohme Company...
...National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who made it grow in the lab, which allowed for the development of an antibody test. It was the National Institutes of Health that funded the basic research on HIV and AIDS. It was the big drug companies like Burroughs Wellcome and Merck that brought a growing list of anti-HIV drugs to market...