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3 HUMAN GENOME SCIENCES CHAIRMAN AND CEO: William A. Haseltine FOUNDED: July 1992 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 650 WHAT IT DOES: Patents genes and develops proprietary gene-based drugs
A reseller of genetic information, Gene Logic offers as its main product the GeneExpress reference database, which shows which genes are over- or under-expressed in various diseases ranging from heart failure to cancer. Gene Logic gathers and packages the data and sells it to biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
But long before then, whole new categories of questions will emerge. For where scientists once studied genetics--the structure and function of individual genes--they've now entered the age of genomics, in which they will study huge numbers of genes acting in concert. "The gene is like a piano...
4 THE INSTITUTE FOR GENOMIC RESEARCH PRESIDENT: Claire Fraser FOUNDED: July 1992 EMPLOYEES: 230 WHAT IT DOES: Genomics research on a not-for-profit basis Started by Venter after he left the NIH, this outfit is the mother of Celera. Run now by his wife, Claire Fraser (Venter serves as...
HGS was founded as a partnership between Venter and Haseltine to exploit the research coming out of TIGR, but the two parted ways in 1997. The company today holds U.S. patents on 159 genes and has four genomic compounds in clinical trials. These include a drug that curbs the toxic...