Pharmaceutical industry Massachusetts

The NIH and the pharmaceutical industry have formed a new partnership to overcome barriers to early-phase clinical trials. The Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson, announced on July 9, 2003 grant awards for six cancer centers involved in a unique public-private partnership. Five pharmaceutical companies together with NCI put forth a total of 5.7 million for this partnership. Institutions receiving the funding include Massachusetts General Hospital University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Washington University, St. Louis University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute University of California, Davis Cancer Center and Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center (http //WWW. bms.com/news/other/data/pf other.news.385 5. html). 

Sheehan, John C. (pp. 88, 199, Plate 41) born in Battlecreek, Michigan, 1915, received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Michigan in 1941. After a few years in the pharmaceutical industry (Merck) he joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he advanced to full Professor and where he remains actively engaged in research even after his retirement in 1976. He also served as Scientific Liaison Officer of Naval Research and as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Organic... 

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