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CRISPR Therapeutics AG is a Swiss–American biotechnology company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.It was one of the first companies formed to utilize the CRISPR gene editing platform to develop medicines for the treatment of various rare and common diseases.
Alan Patricof (born 22 October 1934) [1] is an American investor who founded the venture capital firm Alan Patricof Associates in 1969. For five years, starting in 2001, he stepped back from day-to-day management of his firm to foster entrepreneurship in the developing world.
Randal J. Kirk [7] [5] (born March 1, 1954) is an American billionaire businessman and investor in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. Kirk was the chairman and chief executive officer of Intrexon (NYSE: XON), a biotechnology company, until 2020. Kirk started as a lawyer, but is best known for his investments in pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
The University of California, San Diego [a] (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California.Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is the southernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California.
During June 2014 EntreMed was renamed to CASI pharmaceuticals through the voting process of the shareholders of the company. In the letter to the shareholder, the CEO at that time, Ken K. Ren said "The new name is in furtherance of the remaking of EntreMed and reflects our mission to combat cancer through advanced science and innovation, and also reflects our integrated development strategy in ...
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. was born on October 20, 1971, in Long Beach, California, to Beverly Tate (1951-2021) and Vernell Varnado. [12] [13] Varnado, who was a Vietnam War veteran, singer, and mail carrier, left the family only three months after Broadus's birth, and thus the baby was named after his stepfather, Calvin Cordozar Broadus Sr. (1948–1984). [14]
Martin Shkreli (/ ˈ ʃ k r ɛ l i /; born March 17, 1983) is an American investor and businessman.He was convicted of financial crimes for which he served over six years in federal prison and was fined over 70 million dollars.
The Paris Review is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 [1] by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.In its first five years, The Paris Review published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Terry Southern, Adrienne Rich, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Nadine Gordimer, Jean Genet, and Robert Bly.