Syntex Corporation

Synthetic Estrogens" under "Hormones" in ECT 1st ed., Vol. 7, pp. 536—547, by P. E. Dreisbach, Calco Chemical Division, American Cyanamid Company "Nonsteroidal Estrogens" under "Hormones" in ECT 2nd ed., VoL 11, pp. 127—141, by R. 1. Dorfman, Syntex Research Division of Syntex Corporation "Nonsteroidal Estrogens" under "Hormones" in ECT 3rd ed., Vol. 12, pp. 658—691, by G. C. Crawley, Imperial Chemical Industries Limited. 

Bowers, A. U.S. Patent 3,201,391 August 17, 1965 assigned to Syntex Corporation, Panama... 

Kirk, D.N., Petrow, V. and Williamson, D.M. U.S. Patent 3,356,573 December 5,1967 assigned to The British Drug Houses Limited, England Cross, A.D. U.S. Patent 3,400,137 September 3,1966 assigned to Syntex Corporation, Panama... 

Current address Syntex Corporation, Palo Alto, CA 94304... 

According to EPA s initial plans, cleanup of the Times Beach area was to begin in 1984. However, a number of lawsuits delayed that process until 1990, when the EPA hired the Syntex Corporation to remove and incinerate contaminated soil and restore Times Beach to a safe area. That process was finally completed in July 1997, when the area was reopened as the 409-acre Route 66 State Park. 

Syntex Corporation received FDA approval for a monoclonal antibodv-based diagnostic test for Chlamydia trachomatis. 

March 24, 1964 assigned to Syntex Corporation, Panama Fried, J. US Patent 3,197,469 July 27, 1965 assigned to Pharmaceutical Research Products, Inc. 

For the Syntex story, see the sponsored publication A Corporation and a Molecule The Story of Research at Syntex Corporation (Palo Alto, CA, 1966) Alfonso Gambardella, Science and Innovation The U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry during the 1980s (New York Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 99-101. For Roche Biomedical Laboratories and Roche Bioscience, see Thomas Derdak, ed.. International Directory of Company Histories, vo. 11 (Chicago St. James Press, 1993),... 

Phillips Petroleum Company The Procter and Gamble Company Stauffer Chemical Company Syntex Corporation Weyerhaeuser Company... 

In the 1960s, in a search for even more effective and less irritating analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs, the Boots Pure Drug Company in England studied compounds related in structure to salicylic acid. They discovered an even more potent compound, which they named ibuprofen, and soon thereafter, Syntex Corporation in the United States developed... 

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