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When Dr. Glaspy met Christy for the first time on June 25, 1993, he found a woman in reasonably good physical shape, except for the fact that she was dying of breast cancer. The deMeurerses, in turn, saw Dr. Glaspy as warm, confident and low key, and--unlike Dr. McMillan...
In May, Christy underwent a bone scan, which showed her cancer had spread; her disease was now classified as Stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Given the standard therapies available, it was a death sentence, but her oncologist, Dr. Mahesh Gupta, warmly assured her there was hope. He recommended she consider...
The institute had drawn national scrutiny--and a Congressional inquiry--for a 10-year, $300 million agreement that would have given Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The right to examine all inventions from Scripps and to license almost half of them.
For many, the deal gave Sandoz, a private firm, too much control over the the scientists and technical publications of Scripps. Because the institutional conflicts of interest were too great, the partnership was eventually scaled back, and $100 million was cut from the agreement.
With an eye toward Scripps' problems, he formed an ad hoc committee to make recommendations to bring Harvard's science policy into the 1990s.