Ones that got away
Pharma company Pfizer is purportedly trying to buy rival Wyeth for $60 billion dollars, but a Wyeth spokesman refuses comment. Jules Duga has co-authored a report suggesting that the US will spend less on R&D in 2009, the first decrease in decade. An appeals court has upheld a ruling that Nathaniel Abraham’s lawsuit, claiming he was asked to resign from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute for telling his supervisor that he didn’t believe in evolution, was not filed in time. Daphne Zohar, founder of PureTech, says Johnson & Johnson is the latest to join a global consortium of pharma companies that will fund research together and co-own the results. The total in the pot is now $52 million.
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