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Life sciences industry
- PharmacokineticsPharmacokinetics describes how the body affects a specific substance after administration. This branch of pharmacology focuses on chemical xenobiotics such…
- PharmacologyThe word pharmacology comes from the Greek term pharmakon, meaning drug or poison. This same root appears in pharmakos, a ritual scapegoat exiled in ancient…
- BayerFriedrich Bayer and Johann Friedrich Weskott opened a partnership in 1863 within the German town of Barmen. They established a facility to produce dyes for…
- AmgenIn April 1980, a small group of venture capitalists gathered in Thousand Oaks to establish Applied Molecular Genetics. This entity would soon change its name…
- Bristol Myers SquibbIn 1858, Edward Robinson Squibb opened a small laboratory in Brooklyn, New York. He began selling pure medical supplies to doctors who demanded higher…
- GenentechIn January 1976, a twenty-eight-year-old venture capitalist named Robert Swanson walked into the laboratory of biochemist Herbert Boyer at the University of…
- DARPAThe Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 into orbit in October of 1957. This single event triggered a crisis within the United States government that would…