Gene dreams : Wall Street, academia, and the rise of biotechnology / Robert Teitelman.

  • Teitelman, Robert.
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[1989], ©1989
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    Index Synergen, 192 Syntex, 44-45, 56, 71-72, 142; and Genetic Systems, 88-90, 171-74, 177-78, 181, 196; and Oncogen, 162, 163; see also Syva Syva, 44, 74, 84, 87, 106; and the Emit sys¬ tem, 135; and Genetic Systems, 119, 120-21, 171-83; and immunoassays, 117; see also Syntex Szebenyi, Andrew, 94 Szebenyi, Emil, 93, 95, 96, 97 Szebenyi, Stephen, 94 Takeovers, 78-79, 174-185, 186, 190 Tandem, 23, 176, 226n3 Tax shelters, 85, 89, 160 TDx, 119, 121, 135 Teeter, Howard, 161 Temin, Howard, 59 Texas Instruments, 115, 116-17 TGFs (transforming growth factors), 64-67, 152, 213 Thornton, Dean, 168 3T3 cells, 56, 57, 58, 62, 66, 150 Time (magazine), 12, 31, 32, 176, 186 Tissue-plasminogen activator (t-PA), 9,193, 198 Tobacco Institute, 38 Todaro, George J., 52, 54-70,106,119,200, 210; and the buy-out of Genetic Sys¬ tems, 183-84; and oncogenes, 148, 149, 151-54, 163, 183 Today show, 189 Transfections, 67 Tuberculosis, 16 Tumors, 33, 56, 66, 93-97, 102; and anti¬ cancer drugs, 145, 146; and the naked magic bullet theory, 123-24; and onco¬ genes, 149 United Artists, 30 United Nations, 29 Upton, Arthur, 68 Vaccines, 24 Vagelos, Roy, 207 Valuation, 190-91 Varmus, Harold, 61 Velcro, 34 VUcek, Jan, 31, 35 Vincent, James, 114, 115-17 Viral Carcinogenesis Laboratory, 57, 60, 68 Virgilio, Abramo, 163, 184 Viruses, 28-29, 52-61, 62-63 Wall, Michael, 125, 184 Wall Street Journal, 189-90 War on Cancer, 8-9; funding for, 17, 21, 67; Lasker and, 30; legislation, 14, 30; Rauscher and, 32; see also Cancer cures Warhol, Andy, 210, 215 Warner Lambert, 119 Watson, James, 15, 18, 51-53, 54, 61, 206 Weinberg, Robert, 149, 150-51 Weissman, Charles, 60 Weissmann, Gerald, 34 Whitehead, John, 13 Whitman, Walt, World War II, 14, 16, 141, 142, 206 Xeroxes, 12 Xoma, 198 Ziering, SigilofF, 109 Zinder, Norton, 81 237