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...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...
Some individual cases are so desperate that the pharmaceutical companies have decided to help out. Last summer New Jersey-based Merck announced that it would make its protease inhibitor, indinavir, available free to 4,100 people who couldn't otherwise afford it. Other firms have pledged to continue treatment for those patients who participated in their clinical trials...
...develop an array of novel drugs. "Now that we have an increasing ability to identify and sequence genes, there is no doubt that there will be an improvement in the way we go about drug development," says Dr. C. Thomas Caskey, senior vice president of basic research at Merck, in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey...
...that prompt cancer cells to divide in the first place. Particularly promising is a class of drugs known as farnesyltransferase inhibitors, which have been shown to shrink tumors while sparing normal tissues. "Oncology is not a profession that inspires optimism," admits Dr. Allen Oliff, director of cancer research at Merck & Co. "But these days I'm almost Pollyannaish about finding safer, more effective cancer therapies...
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