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...range of tumors in mice. The results were startling enough that they merited testing in people--which is exactly what Pluda, at the National Cancer Institute, intends to do. How fast those studies can begin depends on how much angiostatin and endostatin EntreMed and its business partner, Bristol-Myers Squibb, can produce and whether they can figure out which fragment to focus on first...
...Edward Scolnick discovered the RAS gene in rats while working at the National Cancer Institute in 1978. Now president of Merck Research Laboratories, he is overseeing the development of a drug that stops the RAS protein from sending its malignant message. Several other big drug companies, including Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson and Schering-Plough, are testing similar drugs. "We think the odds are that if you treat people with a good RAS drug, you will produce some clinical benefit," says Scolnick. Finding a new kind of cancer therapy based on gene discoveries like his own is, Scolnick admits...
LOOK GOOD, FEEL GOOD Bristol-Myers Squibb is testing a remedy designed to fade skin blotches caused by exposure to the sun. The company is awaiting final approval from the FDA. Johnson & Johnson has clinical proof that a substance called Renova can reduce wrinkles. Renova is based on tretinoin, derived from vitamin...
...primary race is mainly a battle of images. Gantt, who grew up poor, lards his campaign speeches with inspirational stories about his ill-educated, hardworking father (a mechanic) and his "Mama [who] fed us values." Sanders, who taught medicine at Harvard, ran Massachusetts General Hospital, became vice chairman of Squibb Corp. and later CEO and chairman of the giant pharmaceutical company Glaxo, presents himself as a serious, concerned authority figure...
Fond of movies, she first invested in Hollywood studios, including Universal and Paramount, and kept a tally of their attendance rates. She also bought stock in about 100 blue chips and large franchise corporations, such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, and drug companies like Bristol-Myers Squibb and Schering-Plough. Her investments grew quickly, says William Fay, her stockbroker for 25 years. "After World War II, stocks really took off. While $5,000 sounds like a nominal amount, it could have increased fivefold in five years," says Fay, who retired from Merrill Lynch two years ago. At Scheiber's death...