“I am contacting you as a result of a recent and ongoing family tragedy.”—Amber Salzman, emailing a gene-therapy researcher in January 2001
No one concerned with R&D shows more resolve than a family trying to save its own and lift the burden of others. Read here about how the Salzman sisters helped to make possible a recent advance in gene therapy.
Mission“It’s so exciting to bring something into the world de novo.”—Hubert J.P. Schoemaker
Today people around the world benefit from products created by the company once led by Hubert J.P. Schoemaker. Read here about how he refused to let that company die.
Remembering Hubert“You have to keep you eye on the patients. If you do that, the company will do fine.”—Gertrude Elion
Gertrude Elion was one of the greatest drug hunters in history. Read here about a cancer drug she pursued to the end of her life.
The Legacy of Great Science"Now we all want to be mad scientists when we are older and wiser."-A young student writing to Frank Ellis.
Frank Ellis understood that if too many kids turned away from science, the end of the biomedical industry would be in sight. Read here about how he showed them a science that was wondrous.
Dr. Frank